Part 36 (1/2)

Every day my nurse and I used to take a walk in Christ Church Meadows, and often ould sit down on the soft grass, with the dear old Broad Walk quite close, and, e raised our eyes, Merton College, with its walls covered with Virginian creeper And how delighted we used to be to see the well-known figure in cap and gown coly Duckling” I knew, as he sat beside me, that a book of fairy tales was hidden in his pocket, or that he would have soravely accept a tiny daisy-bouquet for his coat with as much courtesy as if it had been the finest hot-house _boutonniere_

Two or three ti with him from the bank near the Old Mill, opposite Addison's Walk, and he quite entered intoup at the end of my bent pin, just ready for the dinner of the little white kitten ”Lily,” which he had given reat trouble to le, and Mary was not too patient withto dress it One day I received a long blue envelope addressed to s, froirl--with her hat off and her tumbled hair verytree by the riverside, and two birds, holding as evidently a very important conversation, above in the branches, their heads on one side, eyeing the sleeping child Then there was a picture of the birds flying up to the child with twigs and straw in their beaks, preparing to build their nest in her hair Next ca, with the nest co on it; while the father-bird flew round the frightened child And then, lastly, hundreds of birds--the air thick with the, small boys with tin trumpets raised to their lips to add to the confusion, and Mary, ar up the rear! After this, whenever I was restive while ed, Mary would show me the picture of the child with the nest on her head, and I at once becaoverness, a dear old soul, who used to coe-lettered copies which she used to set ave me some copies himself The only ones which I can reout” (I alondered what ”gout” irls should be seen and not heard” (which I thought unkind) These ritten es to hie, at the end of the week

One of the Fellows of Magdalen College at that tison, and a great lover of music--his rooson and father and I all went one afternoon to pay hi drum, and we found him e arrived in full practice, with his music-book open before him He made us all join in the concert Father undertook the 'cello, and Mr Dodgson hunted up a cohter, the walls echoed with the finished roll, or shake, of the big druht

My father died on August 27, 1897, and Mr Dodgson on January 14, 1898 And ho are left behind in this cold, weary world can only hope we ain

Till then, oh! Father, and my dear old childhood's friend, _requiescalis in pace!_

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