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 Thus his life passed till he was five years and a half old: for the lady in whose house he lived (although he was taught to call her mamma) paid him no kind of attention; and it never occurred to her that it was right to give him any religious instructions. He used to see his bearer and the other natives performing pujah, and carrying about their wooden and clay Gods; and he knew that his mamma sometimes went to church at Dinapore: so he believed that there were a great many Gods, and that the God