SPECIMENS OF SCHOOL WKITING. 199 
" Friend, I bid you farewell. Perhaps it 
may not be our chance to meet in this world, 
but I hope we may in a better world, where 
saints and angels meet ; and if it be our good 
luck to meet there, there we shall meet to 
part no more. I am obliged to close my 
letter in great haste. 
" I remain, 
" Your sincere friend and well-wisher, 
" GEOEGE ADAMS, 
" Chief Magistrate of Pitcairn's Island." 
Besides these letters, now before the 
author, he has some neatly written " copies," 
in a small round hand, signed respectively by 
Albina M'Coy, Reuben Elias Nobbs, Miriam 
Christian, Robert Buffett, Jemima Young, 
Martha Young, James Chester Adams, John 
Adams, David Buffett, Simon Young, Fre- 
deric Young. The two latter are grandsons 
of Edward Young, who was a midshipman 
on board the Bounty, and one of the muti- 
neers. These copies are from well-chosen 
originals, given by their master to his pupils 
as exercises in writing. The following are 
specimens : 
