Ah! a new thought just strikes me. Bees are
_associationists_ and that accounts for his great love of them.
I cannot believe that you will ever regret the possession of such a
working man. Furthermore, you will rarely find two united with more
willing hearts and hands and more cheerful tempers. We have never been,
so far, either of us unhappy in any situation. Our family is not large;
it consists of three daughters, one of eleven, one eight and the last
three years of age, twenty-fifth of May last--they all have one
birthday. We shall probably bring with us, if you make no objection, a
girl who is bound to us, and there remains three years of unexpired
service--a very stout, strong girl, who loves coarse work and who is
Mr. Brewster's mesmeric subject.
Mr. Brewster is a lineal descendant of old Elder Brewster, of the fifth
generation on the paternal side and a lateral descendant on the
maternal side. He thinks that accounts for his being so ardent an
associationist, as Elder Brewster started his colony on that plan and
failed--and perhaps this E. Brewster will do the same thing. But
seriously, because the first failed it is no reason that the second
should, for the world was not as well prepared for unitary life then as
now.
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