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the 6 lovely nature ' of the children, which spoke to him of the 

 kingdom of heaven, while the worldly-minded regarded them 

 as an encumbrance or a nuisance. There were some, however, 

 whose natures excited in Philip anything but love. He speaks 

 of children who were for a short time in his home, but whom 

 he could not cure of their lying and laziness, while they made 

 great professions of religion:— " I confess I feel a loathing 

 against those boys : always hold my breath when I give them 

 the duty kiss, etc." It was one of his greatest pleasures to take 

 a ramble in the country with one or more of his favourite 

 scholars : gathering fruit and flowers in the woods, watching the 

 Unios, etc., in their river haunts, enjoying together some 

 glorious prospect, sleeping sometimes in a barn, or on the 

 cedar twigs in a shanty, where his friends were camping out : 

 and not forgetting their devotions to Him who formed and 

 filled the glorious temple. 



The next summer (1869) he accompanied one of his pupils 

 to a French village (Berthier en haut), partly for some complete 

 quiet, in which to write two lectures on " Oysters and Oyster 

 Culture," which he had engaged to deliver at Baltimore, the 

 following January : and partly also to revive his power of con- 

 versing in French. He wrote a pleasant French letter to his 

 sister, in which he dwelt on the beauty of the river scenery : 

 and a month after, he tells her that he has been giving many 

 temperance addresses in different quarters of Montreal to the 

 habitans ; who, even if they understood English, liked to be 

 addressed in their own language. On October 27, the new 

 fire-proof museum for his shells was inaugurated : he wrote soon 

 after to his friend Mrs. Wright (see p. 6), telling her that the 

 sketches of mollusks she made for him from rare books in his 

 boyhood, would be deposited there : he thought that his old 

 friends would be pleased to think that the taste they fostered 

 by their sympathy and presents "has done a little towards bring- 

 ing careless chaos into order in the West American faunas." 



In his Christmas holidays, he travelled to Baltimore, spending 

 a day at New Haven on the way, at the invitation of Professor 

 Verrill : — " I went to the College, found V. in a mass of heaps, 



