He wrote: "Don't think that this means any great start.

In truth, I am a hundred dollars the poorer for the case, and shall have to cut off a few expenses for the rest of the year.

I tell you this, because I know you will not think for a moment that I grudge the money, and you are not to spoil my trifling self-denial by any offer of assistance You did quite enough in taking in those two little imps.

Were they very bad?
Did they tramp on your flowers, and frighten poor old Russet [Russet was the cat] out of his fast waning lives?
It was a great pleasure to me to see them so plump and brown, and I thank you for it.

Their testimony in court was really amusing, though at the same time pathetic.