gic of some well
remembered maxim or parental caution will often come very seasonably to
the aid of the most experienced.

In pourtraying the characters which are introduced in "THE BOARDING
SCHOOL," the Author has endeavoured to represent, by contrast, the
amiable and unamiable passions; and, by exhibiting them in their true
colours, to render her fair and youthful readers as emulous to imitate
the one, as they will doubtless be to avoid the other; while the
narrative, being of the most familiar kind, will, it is hoped,
contribute to their amusement.

THE BOARDING SCHOOL.

CHAPTER I.

Elizabeth Adair was stooping to prop a rose-tree in a viranda, when she
hastily turned to her sister, and exclaimed, "it is useless attending
either to plants or flowers now: I must give up all my favourite
pursuits."

"But you will have others to engage your attention," returned Jane.

"And will they afford me pleasure? You may as well say that I shall
listen with joy to the foolish commands of some parents, and the
haughty remarks of others."

"Let this be our comfort," said Jane, "sensible people always treat the
instructors of youth with respect; they neither command with pride, nor
complain with insolence."

"But think of the change! We, who have had every indulgence, and no
cares to perplex us!"

"My dear Elizabeth, in the day of prosperity we seldom rejoice with
thankfulness; but in the time of adversity, when our path is darkened,
then we can bitterly repine. Surely we should place our joys and our
sorrows against each other, as a defence from a murmuring spirit."

"It is not late trials that trouble me, but future vexations that I
dread. You know that I have never been accustomed to stupid, drawling,
spoiled children."

"I hope," said Jane, "you will not have a class of this description to
instruct."

"O, all things will be easy to you, for you love children and love
teaching; but I have never applied my mind to any thing of the kind: I
shall not know how to ask the most simple question in nature."

Jane smiled, as she said, "Since you are so very doubtful of your
abilities, I think I will give a short lesson upon teaching. Suppose you
ask your pupil if she has learned grammar: if she replies in the
affirmative, desire her to explain the nature of the different parts of
speech. Then try her abilities in the arithmetical tables, or from the
history of England; tell her to relate some particular event in t