. The choice works of Thomas Hood, in prose and verse. beautifully under our pear-tree. 1 look lorward to the %licity THE PUGSLEY PAPERS. 387 of rending Thomsons Summer with you on the o^reen seat, and ^ag mcnts ;it Christmas permit your participation in the bard,there is a bower of evergreensthat will be deli-httul lor theperusal of his Winter. I enclose, by request, nnepistolary effusion from sis-ter Dorothy, which I knowwill provoke your risiblepowers, by the domesticityof its details. You know shewas always in the homelycharacteristics a perfect Cin-derella, though I doubtwhether eve


. The choice works of Thomas Hood, in prose and verse. beautifully under our pear-tree. 1 look lorward to the %licity THE PUGSLEY PAPERS. 387 of rending Thomsons Summer with you on the o^reen seat, and ^ag mcnts ;it Christmas permit your participation in the bard,there is a bower of evergreensthat will be deli-httul lor theperusal of his Winter. I enclose, by request, nnepistolary effusion from sis-ter Dorothy, which I knowwill provoke your risiblepowers, by the domesticityof its details. You know shewas always in the homelycharacteristics a perfect Cin-derella, though I doubtwhether even suiernaturalagency could adapt her footto a diminutive vitrihed slip-per, or her hand for a princeof regal primogeniture. ButI am summoned to receive,with family members, thefelicitations of Lincolnshirearistocnicy ; though whatevernecessary distinctions mayprospectively occur betweenrespective grades in life, theywill only superficially affectthe sentiments of eternalfriendship between my dearJemima and her affectionate friend, Anastasia Cinderella- No. IV.—From Miss Dorothy Pugsley to t/ie Same. My dear Miss Jemima,—Providence having been pleased toremove my domestic duties from Barbican to Lincolnshire, I trust Ishall have strength of constitution to fulfil them as becomes my newallotted line of lite. As we are not sent into this world to be idle, andAnastasia has declined housewifery, I have undertaken the , andthe Brewery, and the Bakirig, and the Poultry, the Pigs and thePastry,—and though 1 feel fatigued at first, use reconciles to laboursand trials more severe than I at present enjoy. Altho things maynot turn out to wish at present, yet nil well-directed efforts are sureto meet rewnrd in the end, and altho I have chumped and churnedtwo dnys running, and its nothing yet but curds and whey, I shouldbe wrong to despair of eating butter of my own making before I the adulteration committed by every article in Loncion,I was never happie


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