Botany, Geology, and Mineralogy, I consider as amusements.

And with these I assure you we manage to pass the days at the Evergreens not unpleasantly.' Only these, thought I--what an education! But I looked in one of Miss Ponto's manuscript song-books and found five faults of French in four words; and in a waggish mood asking Miss Wirt whether Dante Algiery was so called because he was born at Algiers, received a smiling answer in the affirmative, which made me rather doubt about the accuracy of Miss Wirt's knowledge.
When the above little morning occupations are concluded, these unfortunate young women perform what they call Calisthenic Exercises in the garden.

I saw them to-day, without any crinoline, pulling the garden-roller.
Dear Mrs.Ponto was in the garden too, and as limp as her daughters; in a faded bandeau of hair, in a battered bonnet, in a holland pinafore, in pattens, on a broken chair, snipping leaves off a vine.

Mrs.Ponto measures many yards about in an evening.

Ye heavens! what a guy she is in that skeleton morning-costume! Besides Stripes, they keep a boy called Thomas or Tummus.