r three
you asked me.

1st. Father, does form mean shape? Yes. Has everything
some shape? Yes. Can it be possible for anything to be
made that would not have any shape? I answered no; and then
showed you several things, explaining that they all had some
shape or form. You now brightened up like a lawyer who had
led on a witness with easy questions to a certain point,
and who had cautiously reserved a thunderbolt question, to
floor the witness at a proper time; proceeded with, "Well,
then, how could the world be without form when God made it?"

* * * * *

3d. Does Cale Schurman's big ram know that he has such big
crooked horns on him? Does he know it himself, I mean?
Does he know himself that he has such horns on him?

You were taken down suddenly I think about two or three days
from the first symptoms until you were fairly in the corner.
Your rise was also rapid, I think about a week (or perhaps
two weeks) from your first at recovery, until you seemed
to show nothing unusual. From the time you were taken down
until you commenced recovery was about a month.

We returned to Prince Edward Island, and after a few weeks I
began to examine you in figures, and found you had forgotten
nearly all you had ever learned.

* * * * *

While at New London I got an old work on Astronomy; you
were wonderfully taken with it, and read it with avidity.
While here you read considerable in "Goldsmith's History
of England." We lived two years in New London; I think
you attended school nearly one year there. I usually asked
you questions on the road going to school, in the morning,
upon the history you had read, or something you had studied
the day previous. While there, you made a dozen or two of
the folks raise a terrible laugh. I one evening lectured
on astronomy at home; the house was pretty well filled, I
suppose about twenty were present. You were not quite ten
years old and small at that. Almost as soon as I was done
you said: "Father, I think you were wrong in one thing."
Such a roar of laughter almost shook the house.

You were an uncommon child for _truth_. I never knew you
to deviate from it in one single instance, either in infancy
or youth.

From your infancy you showed great physical courage in going
along the woods or in places in the dark among cattle,
and I am surprised at what you say about your fears of a
stove-pipe and trees.

Perhaps I sh