The four walked sedately down the long stairs in repressed glee, the three ladies waiting on the piazza while Polly registered their names, destination, time of starting, and expected return, in the daybook on the secretary's desk.

A bookman's daybook.

A bookman's daybook.

Village daybook: a Sac prairie journal.

A bookman's daybook.

A bookman's daybook.

Village daybook: a Sac prairie journal.

Before closing this letter, I have a mind to transcribe to you the entries for to-day recorded in a sort of daybook, where I put down very succinctly the number of people who visit me, their petitions and ailments, and also such special particulars concerning them as seem to me worth recording.