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But he that is misty let him be misty still, and the 

 same for him that is shallow ; but let him that is active not 

 mar his activity by " tearing his neighbours in their slime," 

 or by ascending into the thick mist and walking with 

 " Death and Morning on the silver horns." 



FKOM His FATHER. 



Glenlair, 10th October 1853. 



1 have set up the rain-gauge in the middle of the 

 garden at the crossing of the gooseberry bushes at the 

 Camomile. I think it will do. 



As to changing your rooms I suppose from that, you 

 have settled to continue for a time at Cambridge and to 

 look out for a fellowship. 



Glenlair, 28th October 1853. 



Be sure to keep a long way within your powers of 

 working, and then you may do well whatever you undertake. 



Glenlair, 13th November 1853. 



Your letter was chiefly a dissertation on the election of 

 Examinators ; the names were all strange to me, except our 

 old friend Charles Mackenzie. 



To Miss CAY. 



Trin. Coll., 12th November 1853. 



I am in a regular state of health though not a very 

 regular state of reading, for I hold that it is a pernicious 

 practice to read when one is not inclined for it. So I read 

 occasionally for a week and then miss a few days, always 

 remembering to do whatsoever College and Hopkins prescribe 

 to be done, and avoiding anything more. Allan Stewart 

 was up a week ago to be made a bye Fellow of Peter- 

 house, so you may congratulate him when you see him. 

 He is to be in Edinburgh this winter. Frank Mackenzie is 

 up, and seems pretty well. He tells me that he does not 

 sit up late ; but as I have not the management of his 

 candles I do not know what that means with him. I have 



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