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14  Juvenile Letters.

it will be a book. I like book presents the best of any. Simeon Sobriety tells me that the "Token for Children" is a choice book, giving an account of good children. I like to read about good children, that I may learn to grow better myself. I am, dear sister,

Your affectionate brother,
SAMUEL THOUGHTFUL.
Miss Lucy Thoughtful


LETTER VII.
Answer to the foregoing.
Boston, Nov. 15, 1802.

DEAR BROTHER,

Your letter was a rich present indeed ; and I will not delay the answer which you so much desire. And to gratify you, it shall be accompanied with a specimen of my drawing. But I fear it will not justify the favourable reports which you say you have heard. I have been a few days absent from school ; but expect soon to return. Since I have been
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at home, I have perused the "Historical Grammar." It is a useful book ; but you are not quite old enough yet, to read it with advantage. The "Token for Children" I shall send you with pleasure. The author of that work was a zealous promoter of religion ; and spared no pains in persuading children to become virtuous and happy. 

Yesterday I went with Mamma to the Female Asylum ; and I cannot express to you my feelings, while I viewed the little orphans, and contemplated their situation. It was the most pleasing sight my eyes ever beheld. It brought to my mind a few lines, which I copied from a late London paper, and which I enclose for your perusal. Adieu.

LUCY THOUGHTFUL.
Master Samuel Thoughtful

THE ORPHAN BOY's TALE.

STAY, Lady—stay, for mercy's sake,
And hear a helpless ORPHAN's tale,
AH! sure my looks must pity wake ;
'Tis want that makes my cheek so pale!
Yet

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