15TH, 1875. - Frewen contemplates suspending soap bubbles by
silk threads for experimental purposes. I don't think he will
manage that. Bernard' [the youngest] 'volunteered to blow the
bubbles with enthusiasm.'
'JAN. 17TH. - I am learning a great deal of electrostatics in
consequence of the perpetual cross-examination to which I am
subjected. I long for you on many grounds, but one is that I may
not be obliged to deliver a running lecture on abstract points of
science, subject to cross- examination by two acute students.
Bernie does not cross-examine much; but if anyone gets discomfited,
he laughs a sort of little silver-whistle giggle, which is trying
to the unhappy blunderer.'
'MAY 9TH. - Frewen is deep in parachutes. I beg him not to drop
from the top landing in one of his own making.'
'JUNE 6TH, 1876. - Frewen's crank axle is a failure just at present
- but he bears up.'
'JUNE 14TH. - The boys enjoy their riding. It gets them whole
funds of adventures.
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