380 ELIZABETH CARY AGASSIZ 
March 25. — The children as well as myself have 
had a lovely day with “Aunt Pauline.” She was sweet 
with them. We cut out animals and played menagerie 
with our paper wild beasts and circus with our harle- 
quins and riders in pasteboard and fine costumes 
(the paper animals prove to be a great success). After 
Pauline had gone we read Rosy’s Travels; very tran- 
quillizing. 
March 31.— Received Ulysses from Ida by this 
day’s mail and read it breathless through the whole 
morning. The old legend is undying, since it awakens 
poetry and imagination and beauty in these days 
which are called prosaic. 
In a letter written to another friend during her stay in 
Hamilton, Mrs. Agassiz says: 
My occupations consist chiefly in reading fairy 
stories for the children and making clothes for their 
dollies. I wish you could see them — they are very 
dear little persons. 
They have just come into possession of a little 
lamb. They have named it Flossie on account of its 
soft white wool, and I am commissioned by them to 
buy a bell and a blue riband for its neck when I go 
to town tomorrow. 
I do not know that there is anything much nicer 
than the companionship of little children, and I find 
it quite difficult to tear myself away from my quiet 
life here, as I shall do tomorrow for a day or two. 
The occasion referred to in the following selections was 
the opening of the Geological Section of the Harvard Uni- 
