June.—Our cousin, George Bates, of Honolulu, came to see us to-day. He has one brother, Dudley, but he didn’t come. George has just graduated from college and is going to Japan to be a doctor. He wrote such a nice piece in my album I must copy it, “If I were a poet I would celebrate your virtues in rhyme, if I were forty years old, I would write a homily on good behaviour; being neither, I will quote two familiar lines which if taken as a rule of action will make you a good and happy woman:
“Honour and shame from no condition rise,
Act well your part, there all the honour lies.”
I think he is a very smart young man and will make a good doctor to the heathen.
