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CHAP. VI.] taught from the first to use both hands indiscriminately, instead of being scolded for using the left. I have more than once seen children at table with their left hands tied behind them, so as to prevent the possibility of their using them. The sight was shocking to me, as an illustration of the folly that may be perpetrated in the name of precedent. The mothers themselves having been taught to use the right hand in preference to the left, continue to teach that doctrine, though it is a wholly unreasoning one.