ght often be
restored to his work some weeks sooner, if on his recovery he was
nourished and strengthened by a good bit from a farmer's table. Less
than is often thrown to a favorite spaniel would suffice; so that
the expense would be almost nothing to the giver, while to the
receiver it would bring health, and strength, and comfort, and
recruited life. And it is with regret I must observe, that young
women in our station are less attentive to the comforts of the poor,
less active in visiting the cottages of the sick, less desirous of
instructing the young, and working for the aged, than many ladies of
higher rank. The multitude of opportunities of this sort which we
neglect, among the families of our father's distressed tenants and
workmen, will, I fear, one day appear against us.

"By the time I was tolerably recovered, I was forced to leave the
house. I had no human prospect of assistance. I humbly asked of God
to direct my steps, and to give me entire obedience to his will. I
then cast my eye mournfully on my child; and, though prayer had
relieved my heart of a load which without it would have been
intolerable, my tears flowed fast, while I cried out in the
bitterness of my soul, _How many hired servants of my father have
bread enough, and to spare, and I perish with hunger._ This text
appeared a kind of answer to my prayer, and gave me courage to make
one more attempt to soften you in my favor. I resolved to set out
directly to find you, to confess my disobedience, and to beg a
scanty pittance with which I and my child might be meanly supported
in some distant county, where we should not, by our presence,
disgrace our more happy relations. We set out and traveled as fast
as my weak health and poor George's little feet and ragged shoes
would permit. I brought a little bundle of such work and necessaries
as I had left, by selling which we subsisted on the road." "I hope,"
interrupted Bragwell, "there were no cabbage-nets in it?" "At
least," said her mother, "I hope you did not sell them near home?"
"No; I had none left," said Mrs. Incle, "or I should have done it. I
got many a lift in a wagon for my child and my bundle, which was a
great relief to me, as I should have had both to carry. And here I
can not help saying, I wish drivers would not be too hard in their
demands; if they help a poor sick traveler on a mile or two, it
proves a great relief to weary bodies and naked feet; and such
little cheap charities may