Even though Fanny was quite refined, she was still a normal kid! Here, where she is fourteen, she describes a prank she pulls on her friend at dinner. The classic salt and sugar switch!

“At dinner I happened to think what a rude joke I served upon poor Fanny Bailey. I will tell it for my own humiliation. I had salt upon the table cloth for celery when she dined here and when we were left alone at the table I mixed it with sugar, and offering a teaspoonful to her for sugar, she really took a mouthful. She bore it with the best of tempers. I know I should have been angry!” December 30, 1858