8/19 It is getting a little cold now, but we shall enjoy that after all the heat.' 'Quite so; only I suppose it will be very cold when we get quite south. My young people are getting very tired of it. Children, when they are accustomed to every comfort on shore, of course feel it grievously. I suppose you are rather crowded ?' 'Of course we are crowded. One can't have a twenty-foot square room on board ship.' 'No, indeed. |