Don't you remember M.'s letter about the one he saw at Rio Janeiro?
This is all very funny: but what is the use of knowing so much about things' teeth and hair?
What is the use of learning Latin and Greek, and a dozen things more which you have to learn?
You don't know yet: but wiser people than you tell you that they will be of use some day.

And I can tell you, that if you would only study that gar-fish long enough, and compare him with another fish something like him, who has a long beak to his lower jaw, and none to his upper--and how he eats I cannot guess,--and both of them again with certain fishes like them, which M.Agassiz has found lately, not in the sea, but in the river Amazon; and then think carefully enough over their bones and teeth, and their history from the time they are hatched--why, you would find out, I believe, a story about the river Amazon itself, more wonderful than all the fairy tales you ever read.
Now there is luncheon ready.

Come down below, and don't tumble down the companion-stairs; and by the time you have eaten your dinner we shall be very near the shore.
* * * * * So?
Here is my little man on deck, after a good night's rest.

And he has not been the least sick, I hear.
Not a bit: but the cabin was so stuffy and hot, I asked leave to come on deck.

What a huge steamer! But I do not like it as well as the yacht.
It smells of oil and steam, and-- And pigs and bullocks too, I am sorry to say.