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92   Juvenile Letters.

CHORUS.
"The White Man shall our pity share;
"Alas, no wife, or mother's care,
"For him, the milk or corn prepare.

II.
"The storm is o'er, the tempest past; 
"And mercy's voice has hush'd the blast;
"The wind is heard in whispers low; 
"The White Man, far away, must go;
"But ever in his heart will bear
"Remembrance of the Negros' prayer.

CHORUS.
"Go, White Man, go; but with thee bear
"The Negros' wish, the Negros' prayer;
"Remembrance of the Negros' care."


LETTER XXXIII.
Answer to the foregoing.
Pittsfield, Jan. 20th, 1803.

DEAR LAURA,

I WAS very agreeably entertained by the perusal of your last letter.  Your mamma's method is similar to that, to which I 

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have been accustomed. We also read alternately to each other, during the long winter evenings.

The story you recited in your letter does honor to humanity; and places the female character in the most amiable point of view. It reminds me of what Mr. Ledyard, the celebrated traveller, asserted withso much feeling, after having experienced the hardships incident to adventurers on voyages of discovery. He says that females of every nation, and in every country where he travelled, were disposed to show him kindness. When he was hungry, they fed him; when he was faint and weary, they provided him a resting place. When his own sex turned a deaf to his entreaties in times of distress, he was sure to find relief from female benevolence.

In return for your entertaining anecdote, I send you an extract from "Hearne's Travels;" which is as much a favour of the fortitude, ingenuity, and perseverance of our sex, as yours is of their benevolence. By looking on the map, you will see, between Hudson's Bay, and 

the

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