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d, e, f, and g are joined to the main leafstalk, s; at that join 

 the four leaflet stalks (of d, e, f and g) are enlarged to a sort 

 of cushion and if this cushion is touched gently on the under 

 side, the leaflet, either one of the four primary (Dictionary: 

 primus: prime both of us!) or any of the many secondary 

 ones, will move, but the same kind of touch on the upper side 

 will not cause movement. It's just the reverse with the boy. 

 Touch him gently (with a pin's point on the under side) and 

 he will jump. I know it for I 've tried it and had it tried on, 

 on the contrary, rap him on the noddle and his backbone will 

 stiffen and all the mule in him will come to the front ! 



Now, my dear Sara, behold how long a letter I have written 

 3^ou with my own hand, as St. Paul says, and how much better 

 I should feel and be if I wrote many long letters to nice young 

 ladies, but it's rather late in life to begin now, and I shall be 

 obliged to cut this short or buy more paper ! — 



(S. W. J. TO E. E. J.) 



Gray Birches, Holderness, June 2d, 1906. 



Dear Elizabeth, — I take pleasure in informing you that 

 I are very comfortable, having passed through 



and 



a long East-wind storm of rain and cold, and come out into 



