The blind man's walk.

Editor's note: the following entries were written between October 1836 and July 1837; no specific date is written in the journal.

Comfort for childless people. A married couple with ten children have been the means of bringing about ten funerals.

A blind man on a dark night carried a torch, in order that people might see him, and not run against him, and direct him how to avoid dangers.

To picture a child s (one of four or five years old) reminiscences at sunset of a long summer's day, his first awakening, his studies, his sports, his little fits of passion, perhaps a whipping, &c.

The blind man's walk.

To picture a virtuous family, the different members, examples of virtuous dispositions in their way; then introduce a vicious person, and trace out the relations that arise between him and them, and the manner in which all are affected.