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but continually in our thoughts, is something better 

 than Denton or Middleton. Beyond the shoulder of 

 Beamsley Fell is Bolton Abbey, the pride of Wharfe- 

 dale, and it gives a vague charm to the westward 

 prospect to know that the river which shines in our 

 valley at sundown has flowed beneath Barden Tower 

 and through Bolton Woods. 



PHI AND THETA. 



We keep a dog and a cat. The dog is a fox- 

 terrier, the cat an Angora, but neither is well-bred. A 

 really valuable animal runs too great risk of being 

 stolen, and we prefer pets who give us no anxiety. 

 The money value of our animals is negligible, but they 

 are very dear to us. 



Fi is a natural abbreviation of. Fido, and Fi (spelt 

 Phi) suggests Theta to any one who has been through 

 the elements of trigonometry. It was a professor of 

 mathematics who suggested Theta as a good name for 

 the companion of Phi. 



Phi and Theta are very good friends. They will 

 lie down together, and keep one another warm. It is 

 true that when Phi is boisterous, Theta will jump upon 

 a chair pr work-table, and if seriously alarmed will 

 spit and strike. She will now and then provoke the 

 dog out of mere caprice. W T hen Phi is trotting past 

 bent upon business of his own, she has been seen to 

 put out a paw and scratch him. But such interruptions 

 of amity are rare. 



When Theta first arrived, a mere kitten, and found 



