say "My procrastination in performing the most trifling duties it sometimes very great" yet I have not been three months in copying this song. As I have been only out once since you left I have heard no news which I could give except that they talk of getting up another ball and that Mrs Fitzgerald is going to give a dance next week but I think you heard of her party before you went away. I wonder that the people here do not get tired of those constant balls and parties. It appears to me to be very foolish in a colony to spend so much money and time on amusements. I do not mean to say that we should never have balls here, far from it. They can do no harm in