I wish to make you laugh for perhaps when you receive this letter you will be in low spirits thinking of your poor pussy at home and as you are careful that you do not leave your letters laying about like some one you are acquainted with there is no danger of it falling into any other person's hands. By the bye you old plague what did you mean by locking your desk when you went away without leaving me the key. I am sure you must have some love letters in it and I am determined I shall hunt every corner of it the first time I can find the key. I am thinking of borrowing all the small keys I can get to try and open it in case the letters may be removed when you come home. I went down to Mrs Paul's this afternoon for a walk and I had great difficulty in getting home as it commenced raining. The roads