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Rh women—unable to cook your meat, bake your bread, waſh your clothes, or even put them on—ſuch a helpleſs creature is a child—I know what you are, you perceive.

Mary ſubmitted—and in future after ſhe ſaid her prayers, remembered that ſhe was to endeavour to curb her temper.

CHAP. XIII.

Employment.—Idleneſs produces Miſery.—The Cultivation of the Fancy raiſes us above the Vulgar, extends our Happineſs, and leads to Virtue.

NE afternoon, Mrs. Maſon gave the children leave to amuſe themſelves; but a kind of liſtleſſneſs hung over them, and at a loſs what to do, they ſeemed fatigued with doing nothing. They eat cakes though they had juſt dined, and did many fooliſh things merely becauſe they were idle. Their friend ſeeing that they were  Rh