224 BERTHA'S VISIT TO HER 



One word more, dear mamma, and then I 

 will go to bed ; but my uncle has just read to us 

 such an interesting passage from that same Lord 

 Keeper's life, that I really must tell it to you. 

 The children of the family at Badminton were 

 bred with philosophical care ; no t inferior ser- 

 vants were permitted to talk to them for fear of 

 their imbibing some mean sentiments ; and he 

 mentions the following anecdote as a proof of 

 their high principles. Lord Arthur, who was 

 then little more than five years old, reproached 

 the Chief Justice Hales with his cruelty in con- 

 demning men to be hanged. The judge told 

 him, that if they were not hanged, they would 

 continue to kill and steal. " No/' replied the 

 boy, " you should make them promise upon their 

 honour that they would not." 



What a fine sense of honour that child had ! 



June 22nd. Mona Inn. 



Mona on Snowdon calls ! 

 Hear, thou king of mountains, hear ; 



Hark, she speaks from all her strings 



Hark, her loudest echo rings; 

 King of mountains, bend thine ear : 



Send thy spirits, send them soon, 



Now, when midnight and the moon 

 Meet upon thy front of snow: 



See their gold and ebon rod, 



Where the sober sisters nod, 

 And greet in whispers sage and slow, 

 Snowdon mark ! 'tis magic's hour; 

 Now the muttered spell hath power 

 Power to rend thy ribs of rock, 

 And burst thy base with thunder's shock; 



