336 HIS HEAVY HEART. CHAP. xx. 



Miller gave me, and these I will add to my own collection 

 of fossils. I will also give you all those which I had got 

 for Professor Thomson, and my blessing along with them. 



"Of course 46 is too much for them; but the 

 fossils are worth what they are worth; and I must 

 just be contented to stand indebted to your friendship 

 for the rest. I will label on the fossils the localities in 

 which they were found, and also pack them carefully. 



" I am to write to Sir Roderick by this same post, 

 telling him that you had heard of my distress, that you 

 had made a most liberal offer to me for the fossils, and 

 that I had given them to you. I know at least 1 

 trust that Sir Roderick will see meet not to be 

 offended at me for giving you the preference. Sir 

 Roderick will get plenty, and so will you. But one 

 thing you know, that some of my fossils are altogether 

 rare, and not in the possession of any other person." 



And thus ended the sale of Dick's fossils. He 

 parted with them with a heavy heart. But he was now 

 enabled to pay his bill for the lost flour, which he did 

 on the 29th of April following. How he regretted the 

 loss of his fossils may be inferred from a letter to his 

 brother-in-law: "Unhappily," he said, "I have now 

 no fossils. I have given them all away. Alas! how 

 often has my heart beat proudly, when looking over the 

 figures of jaws in Duff's and Dr. Buckland's books, and 

 saying, ' yes, these are very fine, but humble as I am, 

 I have finer than either.' But that is over, and they 

 are all away. They exist only in remembrance, and I 

 never hope to find the like again." 



