334 SIR RODERICK MURCHISON. CHAP, xx 



me, and just to use it in the way intended. She 

 replied again, and sent me 20. 



" The steamer people have sent me twelve bags, out 

 of twenty-three bags of my flour. I have laboured 

 hard and sifted it out, and made out six bags of spoilt 

 flour I With my sister's 20, and with what the flour 

 may do, and perhaps other resources, I will try and 

 manage to pay my bill. 



"You will please to give orders to the National 

 Bank accordingly. Reverse your order.* I have not 

 gone to the bank, and do not intend to go on the errand 

 you speak of. 



" As to my relations with Sir Roderick Murchison, 

 I am already his debtor for two hundred dried plants, 

 and rather than be turned out on the wide world, I 

 would not hesitate one moment in being indebted to his 

 goodness still further." 



He followed this letter with another written on the 

 next day: 



" On trial," he said, " I find that the flour saved, after 

 much labour, is mixed with sand ; consequently it will 

 have to go for little or nothing. 



" In my last to you, I thought that I would get on 

 without troubling any one ; but now I find it all 

 hopeless. 



" I have written to Sir Eoderick Murchison offering 

 to sell my fossils. I have asked his permission to send 



* We infer from this, that Mr. Miller had directed the National 

 Bank to pay Dick a certain sum on his account. The italics are 

 Dick's. 



