How glad your dear aunt would be if she were alive!" And, in short, he took her off with him, and they were married, and went up to join Sam and his wife in New England--reducing our party to four.

Not very long after they were gone, we heard that there was a new Sam Buckley born, who promised, said the wise women, to be as big a man as his father.

Then, at an interval of very little more than two years, Mrs.Buckley got a long letter from Alice, announcing the birth of a little girl to the Troubridges.

This letter is still extant, and in my possession, having been lent me, among other family papers, by Agnes Buckley, as soon as she heard that I was bent upon correcting these memoirs to fit them for the press.

I will give you some extracts from it:-- ...