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Jan. Thurs 22.d.
When I came home from school I
thought to myself, what a dreadful day this has been.
My Arithmetic lesson was as dark, I thought I
could not write an abstract of it. I have felt depressed
all day because I could not understand clearly what
Miss Tilden explained to us about decimal fractions.
But what a change! while I was trying to write my
abstract, light broke in upon my mind, I now un-
derstand plainly, and I am happy, and Miss T. has
not labored in vain. I ought not to have felt so
discouraged after hearing the result of Mr Mitchells
perseverance. How I should liked to have heard
Mr Adam's speech at the laying of the corner stone
of the Observataory. I am but a speck in creation.
I did not understand my lesson in Algrebra very
well. A visitor present. He did not know me, felt
sorry for Miss T. The principal is going to give us
lectures in Physiology in future. I think it will
be more diffcult to write an abstract.
O dear, what a spectacle did my general questions
present, when they were returned. One whole page of wrong,
wrong, wrong. no, no, crosses, crosses. dear me!
Hope. Perseverance.