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72 A governes to young ladies is equally diagreeable. It is ten to one if they meet with a reaonable mother; and if he is not o, he will be continually finding fault to prove he is not ignorant, and be dipleaed if her pupils do not improve, but angry if the proper methods are taken to make them do o. The children treat them with direpect, and often with inolence. In the mean time life glides away, and the pirits with it; "and when youth and genial years are flown," they have nothing to ubit on; or, perhaps, on ome extraordinary occaion, ome mall allowance may be made for them, which is thought a great charity. The