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leaving them to be taught or not as chance, or the principles of those she ́ hires to teach them, dictates, flying from one public place to another in search of admirers, or of amusement, destroying her health, if not injuring her character-the lovely Mrs. Belfield, at the age of thirty, with her beauty unimpaired, and her mind ripened to the highest perfection, devoted all her time to her children and her God.

It is as a bright example to othér mothers, that I have selected this true tale, and as an example to all children,

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I am about to give some particulars of the progress of these amiable childrens' improvements.

In this happy family, the morning duties being first paid to the Giver of all Good, it was usual for the young people to take an hour's walk, when the season permitted, the boys with Mr. Churchill, and the girls with their mother or Mrs. Churchill, and sometimes with both; and indeed very often the two parties joined, as Mrs. Belfield was solicitous to give her children habits of early rising, and of being, as much as possible, in each

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dren were suffered to make remarks on any thing they had observed in their walk, and to ask questions. After breakfast, they played for an hour or more, at what they chose themselves, attended by the faithful Jones, and Mrs. Martha, a niece of the house

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keeper, who had been in the family

since the birth of Elinor; and in this hour, as it was what they called their own time, many of their little schemes of benevolence were put in practice. When this hour was expired, they attended Mr. and Mrs. Churchill, and received their lessons; they continued together an hour, when the young gentlemen

gentlemen retired with their good tutor, to receive his instructions in Latin, Greek, and Mathematics, during which time the young ladies worked; their Music and Drawing lessons were taken altogether in the afternoon; and then too they were allowed to speak only in French.

Elinor and Edmund always dined with Mrs. Belfield, and the sweet twins every other day: George was sometimes permitted that pleasure, but not so often as he might have been, had he had a little more steadiness and mildness about him: little Laura had

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a seat next mamma on Sunday, and on all birth-days, and behaved sweetly.

You are now to suppose, that this happy family have been settled at Belfield considerably more than a twelvemonth; and though the elder children had not thrown off the remembrance of their dear indulgent father with their mourning, the younger ones thought not of care or sorrow.

Mr. and Mrs. Churchill bore their heavy losses like Christians; and Mrs. Belfield was most grateful for the blessings still left her; yet could not, when she contemplated the handsome, intelligent

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