food, as bread and butter, plain meat, and plain fruit-tarts, as he likes; if it be your wish, good beer, for the beer he will be allowed is probably wretched. These things appear trifling; but having known the misery of being stinted at school (which you will be good enougli not to repeat), it is my wish that he should not only have plenty of wholesome food, but by having his tender spirits nourished, at least, by so innocent a refreshment as tea, which I wish him to have of pale black, at least eight or ten shillings a pound, to be moderately sweetened with the best double-refined sugar, which is cheaper, as well as more wholesome than the coarse; and that you would speak to Mr. Johns, to see himself that it be not changed for inferior sorts, (he might breakfast with Mrs. Johns) that he may take pleasure in his studies. Children, by being fed worse than our calves and pigs, are made to hate school, which they should like as their home.

By a little slight encouragement on your part, remember, Madam, it is possible for him, in this glorious country, to raise himself to the summit of his profession: the necessary foundation is, that he be well grounded by you in good religious principles, not in the austerity of a Methodist, but the pleasant gentlemanly faith of Christianity, whose yoke is easy, and whose ways are pleasantness and peace.

Our Saviour's blessing was on the widow's mite; and what offering can we suppose more grateful to heaven than your instructing your child in these days in good principles; encouraging him to store his mind to qualify himself to serve his Creator, in rendering himself a dis-tinguished member of the most distinguished and liberal of professions-the church?

As in the Arabian Nights the piece of lead proved the best gift, your son may hereafter find that the piece of lead

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it has been in my power to offer him, in his education, may prove the best act of kindness I could shew him; and you would feel pleasure if you could do the same by your daughters from the fruit of your own exertions. In that point of view you will forgive me for saying, it would be mistaken delicacy, in my idea, not to publish a plain shilling or halfcrown epitome of have shewn your liberality, by proposing to publish your work on its present scale. The bookseller need not solicit, but only mention the fact; it would still be optional to the subscribers. I cannot conclude without explaining a trifling circumstance, which perhaps made you, at the moment, consider me in an unfavourable light. I mentioned on the road from Dover, talking of the eccentricity and perfect innocence of mind of a drawing-master, who taught my sister, that when drawing a figure, she had made the outline incorrect, he said, Miss, your thigh is too

fleshy. It would have been as well not to have mentioned such an anecdote, however simple, but it struck me you misunderstood me, and were it not explained, must have considered me deficient in the common manners and ideas of a gentleman. You will be good enough to burn this letter, and not to mention, excepting as coming from yourself, my ideas about your son's diet. I am ever ready to encounter ridicule, if necessary; but it is idle, wantonly, to expose ourselves to a keen wind.

I remain, Madam,

Your obedient humble servant,

TIMOTHY FLIGHT.

Mrs. Mortimer inquired of some young gentlemen who had been educated at Mr. Johns' school, respecting the diet, and from their account she found it would be useless to request any other attention paid to her boy's food than what was customary in the seminary, as they had

ample provision, and of the best kind; and the countenances of the children must convince every parent that their health was carefully attended to; consequently she did not permit her son to have any of those indulgences which Sir Timothy had so liberally offered. Indeed, it would be difficult to speak in too high terms of the school; and it was a subject of deep regret to Mrs. Mortimer, that she could not afford to place her other boy there.

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It may be concluded that Mrs. Mortimer felt the most unbounded gratitude for Sir Timothy Flight: she looked up to him as a superior being; and her children, as soon as they could lisp, were taught to pray for him as the benefactor of the orphans.

The school-bills were regularly paid.. Sir Timothy had taken Lutterel Mortimer home to his house, at the Midsummer vacation, and the child was treated with the greatest kindness and attention. Harriet Mortimer continued so bad, that it