8–14 May 1837

It ought to have been more distinctly stated in " Nature " than it is, that life is our inexhaust- ible treasury for thought.

Two babies, Willie and Wallie,' and excellent cousins they prove. Willie conscious of senior- ity in all the dignity of twenty-two months; Wallie six and a fortnight, anything but indif- ferent to his handsome cousin, whom he regards as a capital plaything, and his hair is divine to pull. So says Wallie's mamma, and moreover that he accounts her a porridge-pot, and pap a prime horse.