Holidays. 23 



other of their playthings. The little ones were 

 always compelled to be English, for the bigger girls 

 thought it too degrading. 



Lady Hope, a relative of my mother, frequently 

 invited me to spend Saturday at Pinkie. She was 

 a very ladylike person, in delicate health, and with 

 cold manners. Sir Archibald was stout, loud, pas- 

 sionate, and devoted to hunting. I amused myself 

 in the grounds, a good deal afraid of a turkey- 

 cock, who was pugnacious and defiant. 



