Conceive me writing under the righthand apricot
tree; with a little carpet ingeniously disposed upon the boughs of it,
to supply the [?delicacy] of its' leaves, fill up the shade. Conceive
--- no; you might have conceived, a quarter of an hour ago, your sister
sitting by me at work; but she has disappeared. But I believe she
intends to add a postscript to my letter; so I must take care not to
invade her [?province]; - not a word from me about goslings, a ducklings;
- about what then? - matter of fact [?apit] me! - what a fine
thing is Rhetoric: that [?lost] sentence now contains less
than thece figures. There is your exclamation, -your apostiophe,
(i.e. turning ones' addaefs from one person to another - from you to
matter of fact.) of your personification! - Now how shou'd one
[?a present] matter of fact, as a person? - why shes; a great, fat, [?confu-
-lent] man, standing firm of even, upon both legs, with his arms
a [?kind], to denote his stubborn [&] unyeilding nature; his back towards
you, to denote that he is seldom scantile he is past; two
hairs in [papers]on one side of his head; on the other a large full
bottom'd [?fearwig] spreading over his shoulder; to show that he is
sometimes very tifling of insignificant, [&], at other times, very important,
- a mask in one hand, of a cylindical minor in the other, to dust
that he is often disguised, [&] often misupresented. I think this