. St. Nicholas [serial] . hesaid in his kind, courtly way, Is it so set downin the book, my dear ? Yes, Grandpapa! said naughty Julia, andwent on banging, while grandpapa, who made no pretense of being a musician, offered no furthercomment or remonstrance. Julia grew up, a student and a dreamer. Sheconfesses to having been an extremely absentperson, and much of the time unconscious ofwhat passed around her. In the large roomsof my fathers house, she says, I walked upand down, perpetually alone, dreaming of ex-traordinary things that I should see and do. Inow began to read Shakspere and Byron,
. St. Nicholas [serial] . hesaid in his kind, courtly way, Is it so set downin the book, my dear ? Yes, Grandpapa! said naughty Julia, andwent on banging, while grandpapa, who made no pretense of being a musician, offered no furthercomment or remonstrance. Julia grew up, a student and a dreamer. Sheconfesses to having been an extremely absentperson, and much of the time unconscious ofwhat passed around her. In the large roomsof my fathers house, she says, I walked upand down, perpetually alone, dreaming of ex-traordinary things that I should see and do. Inow began to read Shakspere and Byron, andto try my hand at poems and plays. She re-joices that none of the productions of thisperiod was published, and adds, I regard itas a piece of great good fortune, for a littlepraise or a little censure would have been amuch more disturbing element in those daysthan in these. I wish these sentiments weremore general with young writers. Still, life was not all study and were sometimes merrymakings; witness. JULIA WARD HOW(FROM AND HER BROTHERS, AS BY MISS ANNE HALL.) the gay ball after which Julia wrote to herbrother: I have been through the burningfiery furnace ; and I am Sad-rake, Me-sick, andAbed-no-go. There was mischief, too, andsometimes downright naughtiness. Who wasthe poor gentleman, an intimate friend of thefamily, from whom Julia and her sisters ex-tracted a promise that he would eat nothing for WHEN I WAS YOUR AGE. 548 three days but what they should send him, theyin return promising three meals a day ? Heconsented, innocently thinking that these dearyoung creatures wanted to display their skill incookery, and expecting all kinds of delicaciesand airy dainties of pastry and ! and being a man of his word, he lived forthree whole days on gruel, of which those dearyoung creatures sent him a bowl at morning,noon, and night; and on nothing else. In a certain little cabinet where many pre-cious things are kept, I have a m
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