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you think girls ought to go out and join the men 

 at lunch ? We all think it so delightful, but Fred, 

 my eldest brother, makes himself extremely dis- 

 agreeable about it at least he did till last week, 

 when Emily Eayburn, who is my very dearest 

 friend, was staying with us. Then he told me we 

 might come for a change, but we were to go home 

 again directly afterwards. Generally he says that 

 w r omen are a bore out shooting. Please tell us 

 what you really think about it. 

 ' With much love, yours always, 



' EOSE LARKING. 



<P.S. I am so glad you write the word "lunch," 

 and not "luncheon." I told Fred that but he 

 went to "Johnson's Dictionary," and read out some- 

 thing about "lunch" being only a colloquial form 

 of "luncheon." Still, I don't care a little bit. Dr. 

 Johnson lived so long ago, and couldn't possibly 



know everything could he ? 



'B. L.' 



My darling young lady, I reply, your letter has 

 made a deep impression on me. Dr. Johnson did, 

 as you say, live many years ago ; so many years 

 ago, in fact, that (as a little friend of mine 



