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 dying; I am going to a tender father, who has prepared a place in heaven for me near him ː I ſhall be better than I can poſſibly be in this world. Very ſoon, Robert, I ſhall go to him.

Dear grandmother, cried Robert, take me with you. No, my love, anſwered Susan, you will not go with me. If it pleaſes GOD, you will yet live many years upon earth; you will become an honeſt man, and when your father ſhall be trembling with old age you will give him comfort and ſupport; will you not, Robert? You will be always dutiful, you will endeavour to give your good parent pleaſure? Promise me this; you ſee your father does as much for me.

Robert readily promiſed to do all that his grandmother enjoined him; on which ſhe ſaid, Take care, my dear, that you do ſo; you may depend upon it, that the great of heaven and of earth ſees all that we do. You believe this, do you not? Yes, grandmother, replied Robert, I know that ſees me at all times, and in all places.

How then, ſaid Susan, could you think of hiding from him the apples which you ſtole yeſterday? I will do ſo no more, I will do ſo no more, cried Robert, forgive me, grandmother, pardon me, O You own then that you ſtole the apples, ſaid Susan? O yes, ſaid Robert, who could ſcarcely ſpeak for