You remember the prayer "give me a great thought to refresh me." I think you will find some great thoughts in human beings--they will help you to understand yourself and God, when you try to help them God makes you happy my darling.
MAMA.
It was in this year that Richard enjoyed the thrill of seeing in print his first contribution to a periodical.

The date of this important event, important, at least, to my brother, was February 1, the fortunate publication was Judge, and the effusion was entitled "The Hat and Its Inmate." Its purport was an overheard conversation between two young ladies at a matinee and the editors thought so well of it that for the privilege of printing the article they gave Richard a year's subscription to Judge.

His scrap-book of that time shows that in 1884 Life published a short burlesque on George W.

Cable's novel, "Dr.
Sevier," and in the same year The Evening Post paid him $1.05 for an article about "The New Year at Lehigh." It was also in the spring of 1884 that Richard published his first book, "The Adventures of My Freshman," a neat little paper-covered volume including half a dozen of the short stories that had already appeared in The Lehigh Burr.

In writing in a copy of this book in later years, Richard said: "This is a copy of the first book of mine published.