discipline must be hard. You say that in other respects you are much
the same; but that means that you are in almost constant pain, and
that you cannot obtain entire relief from it, except in bed.

'Still, my dear Father, as you do bear it all, how can we wish that
God should spare you one trial or infirmity, which, we know, are, in
His providence, making you daily riper and riper for Heaven? I ought
not to write to you like this, but somehow the idea of our ever
meeting anywhere else has so entirely passed from my mind, that I try
to view things with reference to His ultimate purpose and work.

'Your loving and dutiful Son,

'J. C. PATTESON.'


The most present trouble of this summer was the sickness of Simeona.
The account of him on Ash Wednesday is: 'He is dying of consumption
slowly, and may go back with us two months hence, but I doubt it.
Poor fellow, he makes the worst of his case, and is often
discontented and thinks himself aggrieved because we cannot derange
the whole plan of the school economy for him. I have everything
which is good for him, every little dainty, and everyone is most
kind; but when it comes to a complaint because one pupil-teacher is
not set apart to sit with him all day, and another to catch him fish,
of course I tell him that it would be wrong to grant what is so
unreasonable. Some one or other of the most stupid of the boys
catches his fish just as well as a pupil-teacher, and he is quite
able to sit up and read for two or three hours a day, and would only
be injured by having another lad in the room on purpose to be the