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unhappy child; and asked the magician what she could do to prevent the bringing of shame of disgrace on her family? He told her he knew no way of prevention, but by laying violent hands on it, which might be now easily done in its infancy,--in a manner so as not to be discovered.--To this she replied, that she would not for ten thousand worlds commit such an act of violence on her son; as if her husband had the least suspicion of it, he was so fond of Judas, that he would never be reconciled to her again; yet for the sake of her family, she would by some means or other prevent it without destroying it; and then told the magician, if she had a small boat made like a shell, with a cover to go down close that no water might get in, and a little vent to let in air at top, and room in it to lie soft and easy, she might without danger send him down the river Jordan, and so commit him wholly to the protection of Providence, which might conduct him to some
