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TRYLAND COURT, Monday, Nove; these last days have been so stodgy--sticky, I was going to say Endless infant talk The , the knavish tricks of nurseh to put one off forever fro there all out of shape, expounding theories that can have no results in practice, as there could not be worse-behaved children than hers

They even try Lady Katherine, I can see, when the two eldest, who come in while we are at breakfast each day, take the ja equally horrid, and dab it all over the cloth Yesterday they put their hands in the honey-dish which Mr Montgo him (the "burrrs" were awful), they went round the table to escape being caught, and fingered the backs of every one's chair and the door-handle, so that one could not touch a thing without getting sticky

"Alexander, dearie," Mary said "Alec et up and leave his breakfast, catch these imps, and employ his table-napkin in vain

"Take 'erandfather

"Oh, father, the poor darlings are not really naughty," Mary said, offended "I like theht they would be such a pleasure to you"

Upon which, hearing the altercation, both infants set up a yell of fear and rage, and Alec, the cherub of four and a half, lay on the floor and kicked and screamed until he was black in the face

Mr Mackintosh is too se two, so one of the footmen had to come and help him to carry them up to their nursery Oh, I would not be in his place for the world!

Malcol so funny I suppose he is attracted by ets the chance, which is not often, as Lady Katherine contrives to send one of the girls with us on all our walks; or if we are in the drawing-roolad, as it would be a great bore to listen to a quantity of it

How silly of her, though! She can't know as much about men as even I do; of course, it only er

It is quite an object-lesson for me I shall be iain, as he has no mother to play these tricks for him