He says he _did_ send his son to Harrow _what more could he do_! Spelling must have been an "extrer" I should think It is a distressing site to see the way he does it.
This splendid but desining Animal is awfull good at shipps. He has a curious little taste for liking them to keep on the surfiss and flote the right way up which was very annoying to the ammerchures who mannage these things for us so nicely in parlyment. He is full of strength and boyancy and stebbility there isnt no one quite like him _I_ think—so is his shipps they seem to last for ever as good as new. He writes such viggrous letters that is a moddle of riting and he is a good powett to. It is a grate pity he didnt teach his _son_ how to spell _he_ seems to get worse and worse—he is a =_perfeckt dissgrase_=.]
I had the esistents of the leading musickle exspurts in aranging the musick on him
This little Creature is full of the most lovly tewnes and all other kinds of musick. Nobody didnt know how humerous wind-instrymants was till he did it. He will get a trombown or a hoboy to talk just for all the world like a rettired curnel only _funnier_—it will make you ake with laughing. He writes the most holy tewnes too and makes you fancy you are soring about with other angels in the upper-boxes. (I wrote this wile goveness was out of the room—she would say it was awfull irevrent I exspect)]
I have had the nicest complements on this picture from Royal Ecademisians. They say it is so full of "_veuve_."
[Illustration: The Skippydan or Droorileno
This dear little Animal is never still for a moment though it is full of wheezes. He is very proud of his feet—you can see them if you look carefully. Sculpters rave about him—they say he is so stattuwesk]
The back-rownd seen of this pictture is laid at Filey-the-Bewtifull where the damms is to take place
This kind Animal is allways so pleased to see you. He is very enterprising and has a funny way of contrackting himself and getting into the bed of a river and blocking it all up till it runs over. I should think the whole place will be full of crockerdials and irrigators and things. He has such a _bewtifull_ beard—it looks as if he would make a very nice _prophet_, dont you think so]