whole creation and who is ever present to help and aid us when we call upon Him. I often think my pussy would never have displayed some fretful little changes of temper had she placed more confidence in God and I sincerely trust that my own pet will never even in a trifling manner give her devoted husband any cause however slight to be displeased with her. Only imagine how painful it is to be absent from you, and how often I must suffer cold, wet, and various other hardships and self denial for my pussy's sake. Remember that you are everything to me and that I cannot help feeling any appearance of ungratitude on your part, not my pet that I accuse you of such but that I think it just as well as the thought has struck me to warn you that I expect to be loved with equal devotion and self denial as I experience on your account, and never to leave me as you did on that foolish night the remembrance of which and some of the circumstances connected with it still rush through my heart in a painful manner. I must now my own dearest