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monument to the memory of Lady Bountiful, cm her decease,
which event did not occur till some years after his return to
England ; so that she had the pleasure of seeing t he child whom
she had raised from obscurity, become a rich, and respectable
man, surrounded by a blooming offspring, of whose education
he took the greatest care, never neglecting the least opportunity
that offured, of instilling into their minds, that the patlis of
virtue lead to the temple of happiness*

LITTLE HUNCH-BACK.

T hers was in former times at Cashgar, upon the utmost
Bkirts of Tartary, a tailor that had apretty wife, whom he doted
on, aud was reciprocally loved by her. One day as he sat at
work,a little hunch-back came and sat down, at the shop-door, and
MI to singing, and playing on a
tabor. The tailor took pleasure
to hear him, and resolved to take
him to Jits house to please his
wife, “ This little fellow," said
he to his wife, “ will divert us
both this evening,*’ Ileinvrted
him in, and the other readily
accepted the invitation ; so the
tailor shut up his (.shop and
carried him home. As soon as
they came in, the tailors wife,
having before laid the cloth, it being supper-time, set before them
a good dish offish; but as the little man was eating, he unlnekily
swallowed a large bone, of which he died in a few minutes,