sweetly, the calf doth frisk, and nature shows her glorious face."

Here is a confession: "I confess I have been very more like a little
young divil than a creature for when Isabella went up stairs to teach me
religion and my multiplication and to be good and all my other lessons I
stamped with my foot and threw my new hat which she had made on the
ground and was sulky and was dreadfully passionate, but she never whiped
me but said Marjory go into another room and think what a great crime
you are committing letting your temper git the better of you. But I went
so sulkily that the Devil got the better of me but she never never never
whips me so that I think I would be the better of it and the next time
that I behave ill I think she should do it for she never never does
it.... Isabella has given me praise for checking my temper for I was
sulky even when she was kneeling an hole hour teaching me to write."

Our poor little wifie,--_she_ has no doubts of the personality of the
Devil! "Yesterday I behave extremely ill in God's most holy church for I
would never attend myself nor let Isabella attend which was a great
crime for she often, often tells me that when to or three are geathered
together God is in the midst of them, and it was the very same Divil
that tempted Job that tempted me I am sure; but he resisted Satan though
he had boils and many many other misfortunes which I have escaped.... I
am now going to tell you the horible and wretched plaege (plague) that
my multiplication gives me you can't conceive it the most Devilish thing
is 8 times 8 and 7 times 7 it is what nature itself cant endure."

This is delicious; and what harm is there in her "Devilish"? It is
strong language merely; even old Rowland Hill used to say "he grudged
the Devil those rough and ready words." "I walked to that delightful
place Craky-hall with a delightful young man beloved by all his friends