It was indeed a charming letter, and how it took me back to the days of "Auld lang Syne!" They were happy days, and good days, and the savour of them is pleasant.

Do you know (you don't know) next Christmas day is forty-two years since I left Frome, and forty-nine years since I went to Frome?
Well! they were enjoyable days, and rational days, and kind-hearted days.

What jokes we used to have! O dear! How many are gone whom we loved and honoured! I often think of my appearing at Frome, falling like a stranger from the clouds, and finding myself taken to all your hearts, and made like one of yourselves.

Do you know Mrs.Watkins is alive and clever, and that I constantly correspond with her?
You recollect little Mary Watkins at Berkely.

She is now a grandmother and has three or four grandchildren!--ay, time passes on.