Ernest’s Improved Health and Future

Relieve us from this fear, and we shall be the happiest creatures in the world.

Your father’s health is now so vigorous, that he appears ten years younger since last winter.

Ernest also is so much improved, that you would hardly know him: he is now nearly sixteen,

and has lost that sickly appearance which he had some years ago; he is grown quite robust

and active. “My uncle and I conversed a long time last night about what profession

Ernest should follow. His constant illness when young has deprived him of the habits of application;

and now that he enjoys good health, he is continually in the open air, climbing the hills,

or rowing on the lake. I therefore proposed that he should be a farmer; which