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126 indulge themelves in things which are generally thought wrong. I am fully peruaded, that ervants have uch a notion of card-playing, that where-ever it is practied of a Sunday their minds are hurt; and the barrier between good and evil in ome meaure broken down. Servants, who are accutomed to bodily labour, will fall into as laborious pleaures, if they are not gently retrained, and ome ubtitute found out for them.

Such a cloe attention to a family may appear to many very diagreeable; but the path of duty will be found pleaant after ome time; and the