Caroline Southwood Smith's letter to her daughter Gertrude Hill about her three year old youngest daughter Octavia Hill, year 1843

Source:

Life of Octavia Hill as told in her letters (1913), compiled and edited by Charles Edmund Maurice

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Life_of_Octavia_Hill_as_told_in_her_letters/Chapter_1

The letter:

Ockey speaks to everything that is said to her and corrects or makes fun of any mistake. She is always ready for a joke. To-day her Papa said, "Take care or you will have a downfall." "That I should not mind," said Ockey, "if the down was there when I fell," and then she laughed.