for. Squash Blossom, Blue Eye, Plantain, and
Buttercup have had the scarlet fever, but came
easily through it. Huckleberry, Milkweed, and
Dandelion were attacked with the hooping
cough, but bore it bravely, and kept out of
doors whenever the sun shone. Cowslip; dur-
ing the autumn, had either the measles, or some
eruption that looked very much like it, but was
hardly sick a day. Poor Clover has been a good
deal troubled with her second teeth, which have
made her meagre in aspect and rather fractious
in temper; nor, even when she smiles, is the
matter much mended, since it discloses a gap
just within her lips, almost as wide as the barn
door. But all this will pass over, and it is
predicted that she will turn out a very pretty
girl.

As for Mr. Bright himself, he is now in his
senior year at Williams College, and has a pros-
pect of graduating with some degree of honor-
able distinction at the next commencement. In
his oration for the bachelor's degree, he gives
me to understand, he will treat of the classical
myths, viewed in the aspect of baby stories, and
has a great mind to discuss the expediency of

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