In answer, or rather defiance, to that kind of well-put interrogation, here comes this little cluster, and conclusion of my preceding clusters. Though not at all clear that, as here collated, it is worth printing (certainly I have nothing fresh to write)⁠—I while away the hours of my 72nd year⁠—hours of forced confinement in my den⁠—by putting in shape this small old age collation: