my employments and amusements have been since you left. They are much the same as when you were here. My occupations principally consist in sewing and attending to some of the household duties. I have really at last got a great part of Mrs Durie's collar done so you must not again give her such a bad character of me. I have not forgotten what you told her and I am determined that the first time you ask me to hem a handkerchief I shall refuse to do it as a punishment for saying that I procrastinate. The weather and roads have been so bad that it has prevented me from walking much so that my only amusement has been reading. I walked as far as Mrs Kelham's today. It was the