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benevolence that comes within their ſphere of action, and it ſhould not be ſuffered to ſleep. Some part of the money that is allowed them for pocket-money, they ſhould be encouraged to lay out this way, and the ſhort-lived emotions of pity continually retraced 'till they grow into habits.
I knew a child that would, when very young, ſit down and cry if it met a poor perſon, after it had laid out its money in cakes; this occurred once or twice, and the tears were ſhed with additional diſtreſs every time; till at laſt it reſiſted the temptation, and ſaved the money.
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