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 when they are left altogether to the management of such sort of people.

Finding it to be the great object with the nurses to save themselves trouble, I laboured to convince them, that, by firmly adhering to my plan, they would most certainly attain their end: for that nothing could be so troublesome as children, whose tempers were spoiled by mismanagement. Very little trouble, indeed, did these little darlings cost to any of them; and as to myself, the constant vigilance with which I watched over them, was a source of pleasure and delight.—From being always kindly treated, and having their little humours checked in the bud, from a certainty that they would never obtain their object by crying, or by peevishness, they were the most docile and tractable little creatures in the world. They learned to be thankful for all that was done for them, and to treat others with respect, as they themselves were