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 to step-mothers or old maids that have charge of children.

These are intelligently explained by the popular saying, “Necessity is the mother of invention.”

They who undertake the management of affairs that belong to other people, may make up their minds to have an extra share of trouble.

All these proverbial expressions are self-explanatory.

A number of the proverbs used by our