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house at Patna, some time since, who taught the child to read: for this I was obliged to her. But she was not satisfied with that alone: she made a methodist, a downright canting methodist of the boy. I never knew it till it was too late."

Mr. Smith. A methodist!—What do you mean, madam?

"Indeed," said Henry's mamma, "the child has never been himself since. Captain D—, of the — native infantry, when they were quartered at Dinapore,