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"and palatable, and what I myself would not chearfully eat, if my circumstances "required it."

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"Pray, Mrs. Betty," faid the Squire,

oblige me with a bafon of your foup." The Squire found it fo good after his walk, that he was almost forry he had promised to buy no more legs of beef, and declared, that not one sheep's head should ever go to his kennel again. He begged his cook might have the receipt, and Mrs. Jones wrote it out for her. She has alfo

been fo obliging as to copy of all her receipts.

favour me with a

And as I hate all

monopoly, and fee no reason why fuch cheap, nourishing, and favoury dishes should be confined to the parish of Weston, I print them, that all other parishes may have the poor, fame advantage. Not only the all perfons with small incomes may be glad of them.

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"Well, Madam," faid Mr. Simpson, who came in foon after, "which is best, to "fit down and cry over our misfortunes, or

to

"to beftir ourselves to do our duty to the "world?"—"Sir" replied Mrs. Jones, "I thank you for the useful leffon you "have given me. You have taught me "that an exceffive indulgence of forrow, "is not piety, but selfishness; that the "best remedy for our own afflictions is

to leffen the afflictions of others, and "thus evidence our fubmiffion to the will "of God, who perhaps fent these very "trials to abate our own felf-love, and to "ftimulate our exertions for the good of "others. You have taught me that our "time and talents are to be employed with " zeal in God's fervice, if we wish for his "favour here or hereafter; and that one cc great employment of those talents, which "he requires, is the promotion of the pre"fent, and much more the future happi"nefs of all around us. You have taught "me that much good may be done with "little money; and that the heart, the "head, and the hands are of some use, as "well

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"well as the purse. I have alfo learned "another leffon, which I hope not to for

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get, that Providence, in fending these "extraordinary feafons of scarcity and dif"trefs, which we have lately twice expe"rienced, has been pleased to over-rule "these trying events to the general good; "for it has not only excited the rich to "an increased liberality, as to actual con"tribution, but it has led them to get 66 more acquainted with the local wants of "their poorer brethren, and to intereft "themselves in their comfort; it has led "to improved modes of economy, and "to a more feeling kind of beneficence. "Above all, without abating any thing of "a juft fubordination, it has brought the "affluent to a nearer knowledge of the "perfons and characters of their indigent "neighbours: it has literally brought "the rich and poor to meet together; "and this I look upon to be one of the "effential advantages attending Sunday "Schools

"Schools alfo, where they are carried on

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upon true principles, and are fanctioned

by the vifits, as well as fupported by the "contributions, of the wealthy."

May all who read this account of Mrs. Jones, and who are under the fame circumftances, go and do likewife!

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.

I Promised, in the Cure for Melancholy, to give fome account of the manner in which Mrs. Jones fet up her school. She did not much fear being able to raise the money; but money is of little ufe, unless fome perfons of fenfe and piety can be found to direct these inftitutions. Not that I would difcourage those who set them up, even in the most ordinary manner, and from mere views of worldly policy. It is fomething gained to rescue children from idling away their Sabbath in the fields or the streets. It is no fmall thing to keep them from those tricks to which a day of leisure tempts the idle and the ignorant. It is fomething for them to be taught to read; it is much to be taught

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