may

have the same fate, and I assure you I have great doubts about it. But, even if not, its little day will be over before you are ready and willing.

[Come]

out—"screw your courage to the sticking-place."

[2]

Except the

Post Bag

(and surely you cannot complain of a want of success there), you have not been

regularly

out for some years. No man stands higher,—whatever you may think on a rainy day, in your provincial retreat.