380 MEMOIR OF GEORGE WILSON. CHAP. IX. 



day after the accident. " Nothing but my right arm, being the 

 disabled one, keeps me from writing to you myself to assure you 

 I am very well. I trust you will not -distress yourself with the 

 thought that I deserve any great amount of compassion or sym- 

 pathy. I deserve, indeed, rather a severe reproof for my incon- 

 siderateness in allowing a queer fish to tempt me to forget that 

 I was not so good at clambering over walls as formerly. As we 

 shall soon be with you, and will write every day, I hope you 

 will not allow this accident to discompose you. I shall be up 

 walking in a couple of days, and will probably be in general 

 health all the better that I shall be utterly unable for a week 

 or two to make use of my pen hand." The following day his 

 filial love showed itself in an attempt to use his left hand. 

 Here is the result : 



freit 



JMo 



Bulletins continued to follow, written with the left hand, and 

 showing great improvement in the penmanship, though neces- 

 sarilv laconic in stvle. 



