tice  your  brother  Dick  to  that  place, — he  is
such  a  friend  of  Harry^s  you  know!  Don^t
for  the  world  tell  Dick  that  1  have  mention-
ed his  name:  I  am  sure,  if  I  did  not  know
your  love  for  the  best  of  brothers,  I  should
never  have  thouj^ht  of  him!

Do  tell  Dick  this  is  the  most  agreeable
spot  on  the  face  of  the  earth; — a  niiiiion
times  pleasanter  than  Philadelphia:  The
young  men  are  in  raptures!  Tell  him  they
have  a  regular  club  which  meets  every  night
at  10  o'clock,  where  they  enjoy  themselves
excessively  in  smoking  and  singing,  if  one
may  judge  from  the  noise  and  laughter. —
O!  i  have  the  strangest  thing  to  tell  you
about  a  song  that  we  overheard  one  of  the
gentlemen  sing!  Indeed,  the  one  w^e  learned
at  Boarding  School  is  nothing  to  compare
to  it!  and  what  makes  it  the  more  surprising
is,  that  the  singer  is  the  most  timid — bash-
ful— modest  young  man  in  the  house,  and
can  scarcely  speak  to  a  woman. Lord!  I
wonder  what  he  is  afraid  of!

You  cannot  possibly  imagine  the  exqui-
site dehght  there  is  in  bathing:  we  huddle
on  any  old  things — nothing  but  a  gown  and
shawl,  and  a  pretty  large  bonnet  to  hide  one's
face  you  know,  and  walk  through  the  midst


LETTERS  FROM  LCNG-BRANCH. 