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Rh CHAP. IX.

The Inconveniences of immoderate Indulgence.

HE children were allowed to help themſelves to fruit, when it made a part of their meal; and Caroline always took care to pick out the beſt, or ſwallow what ſhe took in a hurry, leſt ſhe ſhould not get as much as ſhe wiſhed for. Indeed ſhe generally eat more than her ſhare. She had ſeveral times eaten more than a perſon ought to eat at one time, without feeling any ill effects; but one afternoon ſhe complained of a pain in her ſtomach in conſequence of it, and her pale face and languid eyes plainly ſhewed her indiſpoſition. Mrs. Maſon gave her an emetic, and after the operation ſhe was obliged to go to bed, though ſhe had promiſed herſelf a pleaſant walk that evening. She was left alone, for Mary was not permitted to ſtay at home with her, as ſhe offered to do. Had her ſickneſs been accidental, we would both Rh