Nothing makes such good ferneries, you get so many crannies and corners.

Bob says it's not far from the canal, and he thinks he could borrow a hand-cart from the man that keeps the post-office up there, and get a load or two down to the canal-bank, and then fetch them down to our place in the _Adela_.

Oh, how I wish you were here to help! Jem's going to.

He's awfully kind to me now you're gone.

Talking of the _Adela_ if you are very long away (and some voyages last two or three years), I think I shall finish the garden, and the croft and the orchard, or at any rate one journey round them; and I think for another of your voyages I will do the log of the _Adela_ on the canal, for with water-plants, and shells, and larvae, and beasts that live in the banks, it would be splendid.