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 not indicreetly indulge them. I once heard a judicious father ay, "He would treat his child as he would his hore: firt convince it he was its mater and then its friend." But yet a rigid tyle of behaviour is by no means to be adopted; on the contrary, I wih to remark, that it is only in the years of childhood that the happines of a human being depends entirely on others—and to embitter thoe years by needles retraint is cruel. To conciliate affection, affection mut be hown, and little proofs of it ought always to be given—let them not appear weaknees, and they will ink deep into the young mind, and call Rh