At any other time I would have been not only glad, but proud, to receive from a man like Mr.Greeley a letter of this kind, and would have studied it earnestly and tried to improve myself all I could; but now, with that poor boy in his far home languishing for relief, I had no heart for learning.
"Three days passed by, and I read the note again.

Again its tenor had changed.

It now appeared to say: "Potations do sometimes wake wines; turnips restrain passion; causes necessary to state.

Infest the poor widow; her lord's effects will be void.

But dirt, bathing, etc., etc., followed unfairly, will worm him from his folly--so swear not.
Yrxwly, HEVACE EVEELOJ.' "This was more like it.