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MORAL CONVERSATIONS
AND
STORIES.
CHAP. I.
The Treatment of Animals—The Ant—The Bee—Goodneſs—The Lark's Neſt—The Aſſes.
ONE fine morning in ſpring, ſome time after Mary and Caroline were ſettled in their new abode, Mrs. Maſon propoſed a walk before breakfaſt, a cuſtom ſhe wiſhed to teach imperceptibly, by rendering it amuſing.
The ſun had ſcarcely diſpelled the dew that hung on every blade of graſs, and filled the half-ſhut flowers; every proſpect ſmiled, and the ſreſhneſs of the air conveyed the moſt pleaſing ſenſations to Mrs. Maſon's
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mind;
