7/22 Help me to feel I am a boarder. I catch up an old sympathy I had for girls and boys. For boys! any boys! the dear monkey boys! cherub monkeys! They are so funny. I am sure I never have laughed as I did at Selina Collett's report, through her brother, of the way the boys tried to take to my name; and their sneezing at it, like a cat at a deceitful dish. "Aminta"-- was that their way ?' 'Something--the young rascals!' 'But please repeat it as you heard them.' '"Aminta."' He subdued the mouthing. |