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114 assert herself for herself—she will suffer wrong first—but for others she will be perfectly fearless." To my mother's anxious question, "what shall I do?" he replied, "Throw responsibility upon her. She has all the qualities of a teacher. As soon as her age will permit, give her a school to teach." I well remember how this suggestion shocked me. I should not have remembered all these advices, but years after they were found with much more among my mother's carefully preserved papers; some correspondence must have followed. The depth and faithfulness of the interest felt, was shown in the fact that the great reader of human character, through his long life in foreign lands as well as his own, never forgot the troublesome child. Occasional cor-