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 whole, I used to think her rather more slow of apprehension than some of her companions. She usually repeated her tasks correctly, but was seldom able to make any answers to such questions as she was not previously prepared to reply to. Her countenance was not engaging, her eye exhibited no observable liveliness. She read tolerably well took pains, and improved in it.

Mildness and quietness marked her general demeanor. She was very constant in her attendance on public worship at the church, as well as on my Saturday school at home, But, generally speaking, she was little noticed, except for her regular and orderly conduct. Had I then been asked of which of my young scholars I had formed the nost favourable opinion, poor Jane might probably have been omitted in the list.

Once, indeed, during the latter part of that year, I was struck with her ready attention to my wishes. I had sent her into the church-yard to ommit to memory an epitaph which I admired.— On her return she told me that in addition to what had desired, she had also learned another in— cried on an adjoining stone, adding that she thought it a very pretty one, it is as follows.

It must be so-Our Father Adam's fall And disobedience brought this lot on all. All die in him.-But hopeless should we be, Blest Revelation! were it not for thee. Hail, glorious gospel, heavenly light, whereby We live with comfort, and with comfort die; And view beyond this gloomy scene, the tomb, A life of endless happiness to come.

I afterwards discovered that the evangelical ntiment expressed in the latter epitaph had much ected her. But the period of this little inci-