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Moral Diſcipline.
Children ſhould be permitted to enter into converſation; but it requires great diſcernment to find out ſuch ſubjects as will gradually improve them. Animals are the firſt objects which catch their attention; and I think little ſtories about them would not only amuſe but inſtruct at the ſame time, and have the beſt effect in forming the temper and cultivating the good diſpoſitions of the heart. There are many little books which have this tendency. One in particular I recollect: The Perambulations of a Mouſe. I cannot here help mentioning a book of hymns, in meaſured proſe written by the ingenious authorof
