aking.

Mrs. Jones found that no poor women in Weston could buy a little
milk, as the farmers' wives did not care to rob their dairies. This
was a great distress, especially when the children were sick. So
Mrs. Jones advised Mrs. Sparks, at the Cross, to keep a couple of
cows, and sell out the milk by halfpennyworths. She did so, and
found, that though this plan gave her some additional trouble, she
got full as much by it as if she had made cheese and butter. She
always sold rice at a cheap rate; so that, with the help of the milk
and the public oven, a fine rice-pudding was to be had for a trifle.

CHARITY SCHOOLS FOR SERVANTS.

The girls' school, in the parish, was fallen into neglect; for
though many would be subscribers, yet no one would look after it. I
wish this was the case at Weston only: many schools have come to
nothing, and many parishes are quite destitute of schools, because
too many gentry neglect to make it a part of the duty of their
grown-up daughters to inspect the instruction of the poor. It was
not in Mr. Simpson's way to see if girls were taught to work. The
best clergyman can not do every thing. This is ladies' business.
Mrs. Jones consulted her counselor, Mrs. Betty, and they went every
Friday to the school, where they invited mothers, as well as
daughters, to come, and learn to cut out to the best advantage. Mrs.
Jones had not been bred to these things; but by means of Mrs.
Cowper's excellent cutting-out book, she soon became mistress of the
whole art. She not only had the girls taught to make and mend, but
to wash and iron too. She also allowed the mother or eldest daughter
of every family to come once a week, and learn how to dress _one
cheap dish_. One Friday, which was cooking day, who should pass but
the squire, with his gun and dogs. He looked into the school for the
first time. "Well, madam," said he, "what good are you doing here?
What are your girls learning and earning? Where are your
manufactures? Where is your spinning and your carding?" "Sir," said
she, "this is a small parish, and you know ours is not a
manufacturing county; so that when these girls are women, they will
be not much employed in spinning. We must, in the kind of good we
attempt to do, consult the local genius of the place: I do not think
it will answer to introduce spinning, for instance, in a country
where it is quite new. However, we teach them a little of it, and
still more of knitting, that they may be able