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 you do not try; but even ſuppoſing that your poor mother is a little tireſome, do you not think it is your duty to bear with the infirmities of your aged parent? Conſider, ſhe has but a ſhort time to live in the world; and it will ſurely fill your heart with remorſe when ſhe is dead and gone, to think that you helped to bring down her grey hairs with ſorrow to the grave. Mrs. Andrews uſed many other arguments, which at length had ſome effect, and Hannah Jenkinſon promiſed to treat her mother with greater kindneſs for the time to come, which ſhe accordingly did, and the good old woman ended her days in peace ; and her daughter rejoiced as long as ſhe lived, that ſhe had altered her behaviour to her. This young woman had been taught to read, but being always of a gay turn, and left to herſelf a good deal while her poor mother went out to work, ſhe got idle habits, and never could be perſuaded to delight in reading the Scriptures, and that was the cauſe of her neglecting ſo material a duty ; but it is to be hoped, that Sunday Schools and Schools of Induſtry, will be a mean of preventing ſuch faults in many daughters whoſe parents cannot attend to them.

