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diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes index 6833f05..d7b82bc 100644 --- a/.gitattributes +++ b/.gitattributes @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@ -* text=auto -*.txt text -*.md text +*.txt text eol=lf +*.htm text eol=lf +*.html text eol=lf +*.md text eol=lf diff --git a/13675-0.txt b/13675-0.txt index de883da..c177ace 100644 --- a/13675-0.txt +++ b/13675-0.txt @@ -760,7 +760,7 @@ that's what I have, replied the little one in the Country Manner; and immediately taking the Letters she set up these Syllables: ba be bi bo bu, ca ce ci co cu - da de di do du, fa fe fi so fu. + da de di do du, fa fe fi fo fu. and gave them their exact Sounds as she composed them; after which she set up the following; @@ -956,7 +956,7 @@ Well, I never saw so grand a Funeral in all my Life; but the Money they squandered away, would have been better laid out in little Books for Children, or in Meat, Drink, and Cloaths for the Poor. -This if a fine Hearse indeed, and the nodding Plumes on the Horses +This is a fine Hearse indeed, and the nodding Plumes on the Horses look very grand; but what End does that answer, otherwise than to display the Pride of the Living, or the Vanity of the Dead. Fie upon such Folly, say I, and Heaven grant that those who want more Sense may @@ -1332,7 +1332,7 @@ Now as many People, even at that Time had learned to lie in Bed long in the Morning, she thought the Lark might be of Use to her and her Pupils, and tell them when to get up. -_For be that is fond of his Bed, and lays 'till Noon, lives but half +_For he that is fond of his Bed, and lays 'till Noon, lives but half his Days, the rest being lost in Sleep, which is a Kind of Death_. Some Time after this a poor Lamb had lost its Dam, and the Farmer @@ -1479,7 +1479,7 @@ In his Distress, one of his Relations, who lived at _Florence_, offered to take his Son; and another, who lived at _Barbadoes_, sent for one of his Daughters. The Ship which his Son sailed in was cast away, and all the Crew supposed to be lost; and the Ship, in -which his Daughter went a Passenger, was taken by Pyrates, and one +which his Daughter went a Passenger, was taken by Pirates, and one Post brought the miserable Father an Account of the Loss of his two Children. This was the severest Stroke of all: It made him compleatly wretched, and he knew it must have a dreadful Effect on his Wife and @@ -1530,7 +1530,7 @@ Blessings. [Illustration] -Tis impossible to express the mutual Joy which this occasioned. Their +'Tis impossible to express the mutual Joy which this occasioned. Their Conversation was made up of the most endearing Expressions, intermingled with Tears and Caresses. Their Torrent of Joy, however, was for a Moment interrupted, by a Chariot which stopped at the Gate, @@ -1783,7 +1783,7 @@ than to say any Thing to aggravate your Husband's Resentment. These frequent Quarrels, arise from the Indulgence of your violent Passions; for I know, you both love one another, notwithstanding what has passed between you. Now, pray tell me _John_, and tell me _Martha_, -when you have had a Quarrel the over Night, are you not both sorry for +when you have had a Quarrel the other Night, are you not both sorry for it the next Day? They both declared that they were: Why then, says she, I'll tell you how to prevent this for the future, if you will both promise to take my Advice. They both promised her. You know, says @@ -1929,7 +1929,7 @@ _Yours_ ROGER BACON. And so it is true? And they have taken up Mrs. _Margery_ then, and accused her of being a Witch, only because she was wiser than some of her Neighbours! Mercy upon me! People stuff Children's Heads with -Stories of Ghosts, Faries, Witches, and such Nonsense when they are +Stories of Ghosts, Fairies, Witches, and such Nonsense when they are young, and so they continue Fools all their Days. The whole World ought to be made acquainted with her Case, and here it is at their Service. @@ -2288,7 +2288,7 @@ Stone-head turned to Gold. _Tom_ got up very early on the first of _May_ to behold this amazing Change, and when he came near the Statue he saw a Number of -People, who all ran away from him in the utmost Consternation, hating +People, who all ran away from him in the utmost Consternation, having never before seen a Lion follow a Man like a Lap-dog. Being thus left alone, he fixed his Eyes on the Sun, then rising with resplendent Majesty, and afterwards turned to the Statue, but could see no Change diff --git a/13675-h/13675-h.htm b/13675-h/13675-h.htm index ad14705..0794806 100644 --- a/13675-h/13675-h.htm +++ b/13675-h/13675-h.htm @@ -1,29 +1,26 @@ -<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> -<html> +<!DOCTYPE html> +<html lang="en"> <head> -<meta name="generator" content= -"HTML Tidy for Windows (vers 1st June 2004), see www.w3.org"> -<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content= -"text/html; charset=UTF-8"> +<meta charset="utf-8"> <title>Goody Two-Shoes, Introduction by Charles Welsh</title> -<style type="text/css"> -/*<![CDATA[ XML blockout */ -<!-- - - -.newpage {display: none;} - // --> - /* XML end ]]>*/ +<style> + body { + margin-left: 8%; + margin-right: 10%; + } + .newpage {display: none;} + .fright, .x-ebookmaker .fright {float: right;} + .fleft, .x-ebookmaker .fleft {float: left;} </style> </head> <body> <div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 13675 ***</div> -<h4>There are several editions of this ebook in the Project Gutenberg collection. Various characteristics of each ebook are listed to aid in selecting the preferred file.<br />Click on any of the filenumbers below to quickly view each ebook. +<h4>There are several editions of this ebook in the Project Gutenberg collection. Various characteristics of each ebook are listed to aid in selecting the preferred file.<br >Click on any of the filenumbers below to quickly view each ebook. </h4> -<table summary="" style="margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto" cellpadding="4" border="3"> +<table style="margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; padding: 4px; border: 3px solid;"> <tr><td> <b><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37877/37877-h/37877-h.htm"> @@ -48,9 +45,9 @@ </table> -<span class="newpage"><a name="pagei" id="pagei">[i]</a></span> +<span class="newpage"><a id="pagei">[i]</a></span> -<center> +<div style="text-align: center"> <h1>GOODY TWO-SHOES</h1> <h3>A FACSIMILE REPRODUCTION</h3> @@ -74,15 +71,13 @@ S<small>T</small> P<small>AUL'S</small> C<small>HURCHYARD,</small> L<small>ONDON</small></small><br> 1 8 8 1</b><br> -<span class="newpage"><a name="pageii" id= -"pageii">[ii]</a></span><br> -<span class="newpage"><a name="pageiii" id= -"pageiii">[iii]</a></span><br> +<span class="newpage"><a id="pageii">[ii]</a></span><br> +<span class="newpage"><a id="pageiii">[iii]</a></span><br> <br> <h2>INTRODUCTION.</h2> -</center> +</div> -<hr width="30%"> +<hr style="width: 30%;"> <p>In <i>The London Chronicle</i> for December 19--January 1, 1765--the following advertisement appeared:--</p> @@ -91,11 +86,10 @@ every Faculty are desired to observe that on the 1st of January, being New Year's Day (Oh, that we may all lead new Lives!), Mr Newbery intends to publish the following important volumes, bound and gilt, and hereby invites all his little friends who are good to -call for them at the Bible and Sun, in St <span class="newpage"><a -name="pageiv" id="pageiv">[iv]</a></span>Paul's Churchyard: but +call for them at the Bible and Sun, in St <span class="newpage"><a id="pageiv">[iv]</a></span>Paul's Churchyard: but those who are naughty are to have none.</p> -<table summary="Volumes to be published"> +<table> <tr> <td>1.</td> <td>The Renowned History of Giles Gingerbread: a little boy who @@ -115,13 +109,13 @@ necessary for all families.</td> </tr> <tr> -<td valign="top">4.</td> +<td style="vertical-align: top;">4.</td> <td>The Valentine Gift: or how to behave with honour, integrity, and humanity: very useful with a Trading Nation.</td> </tr> <tr> -<td valign="top">5.</td> +<td style="vertical-align: top;">5.</td> <td>The Fairing: or a golden present for children. In which they can see all the fun of the fair, and at home be as happy as if they were there, a Book of great consequence to all whom it may @@ -130,7 +124,7 @@ concern.<br> </tr> </table> -<span class="newpage"><a name="pagev" id="pagev">[v]</a></span> +<span class="newpage"><a id="pagev">[v]</a></span> <p>"We are also desired to give notice that there is in the Press, and speedily will be published either by subscription or otherwise, @@ -146,8 +140,7 @@ postponed till the meeting of Parliament. This work, which will be replete with cuts and characters, is not intended to exalt or depress any particular country, to support the pride of any particular family, or to feed the folly of any particular party, -but to <span class="newpage"><a name="pagevi" id= -"pagevi">[vi]</a></span>stimulate the mind to virtue, to promote +but to <span class="newpage"><a id="pagevi">[vi]</a></span>stimulate the mind to virtue, to promote universal benevolence, to make mankind happy. Those who would know more of the matter may enquire of Mr Newbery."</p> @@ -162,7 +155,7 @@ of Southey when a child that</p> <p>"The well-known publishers of "Goody Two Shoes," "Giles Gingerbread," and other such delectable histories, in <span class= -"newpage"><a name="pagevii" id="pagevii">[vii]</a></span>sixpenny +"newpage"><a id="pagevii">[vii]</a></span>sixpenny books for children, splendidly bound in the flowered and gilt Dutch paper of former days, sent him twenty such volumes, and laid the foundation of a love of books which grew with the child's growth, @@ -176,8 +169,7 @@ forgotten, though they did not deserve such a fate; but the name of children, though the book itself may be unknown to thousands of little ones of this later generation.</p> -<span class="newpage"><a name="pageviii" id= -"pageviii">[viii]</a></span> +<span class="newpage"><a id="pageviii">[viii]</a></span> <p>"Goody Two Shoes" was published in April 1765, and few nursery books have had a wider circulation, or have retained their position @@ -193,8 +185,7 @@ stuff has banished all the old classics of the nursery, and the shopman at Newbery's hardly deigned to reach them off an old exploded corner of a shelf, when Mary asked for them. Mrs Barbauld's and Mrs Trimmer's nonsense lay in piles about. -Knowledge, <span class="newpage"><a name="pageix" id= -"pageix">[ix]</a></span>insignificant and vapid as Mrs Barbauld's +Knowledge, <span class="newpage"><a id="pageix">[ix]</a></span>insignificant and vapid as Mrs Barbauld's books convey, it seems must come to a child in the shape of knowledge; and his empty noddle must be turned with conceit of his own powers when he has learnt that a horse is an animal, and Billy @@ -207,8 +198,7 @@ what you would have been now, if instead of being fed with tales and old wives' fables in childhood, you had been crammed with geography and natural history!</p> -<p>"Hang them!--I mean the cursed Barbauld <span class="newpage"><a -name="pagex" id="pagex">[x]</a></span>crew, those blights and +<p>"Hang them!--I mean the cursed Barbauld <span class="newpage"><a id="pagex">[x]</a></span>crew, those blights and blasts of all that is human in man and child."[B]</p> <p>There must, however, be many parents still living who remember @@ -221,8 +211,8 @@ their grand-parents and great grand-parents when they were children, while they cannot fail to be attracted by its simple, pretty, and interesting story.</p> -<hr width="30%"> -<span class="newpage"><a name="pagexi" id="pagexi">[xi]</a></span> +<hr style="width: 30%;"> +<span class="newpage"><a id="pagexi">[xi]</a></span> <p>The question of the authorship of the book is still an unsettled one. It was at one time commonly attributed to Oliver Goldsmith, @@ -238,8 +228,7 @@ children which have been ever since received with universal approbation. The Lilliputian histories of Goody Two Shoes, Giles Gingerbread, Tommy Trip, &c., &c., are remarkable proofs of the benevolent minds of the projectors of this plan of <span class= -"newpage"><a name="pagexii" id= -"pagexii">[xii]</a></span>instruction, and respectable instances of +"newpage"><a id="pagexii">[xii]</a></span>instruction, and respectable instances of the accommodation of superior talents to the feeble intellects of infantine felicity."</p> @@ -254,8 +243,7 @@ prominent families in the book is also named Jones.</p> <p>Beyond this, however, there appears to be no evidence as to Mr Giles Jones being the writer, and I think something may be said as to the claim on behalf of the poet Goldsmith, although I am by no -means anxious that the <span class="newpage"><a name="pagexiii" id= -"pagexiii">[xiii]</a></span>honour of having written it should be +means anxious that the <span class="newpage"><a id="pagexiii">[xiii]</a></span>honour of having written it should be ascribed either to the one or to the other: the following remarks, which are mainly taken from an article I contributed to the <i>Athenæum</i> in April 1881, are offered simply as @@ -269,7 +257,7 @@ children published by John Newbery as I could procure (and they are as scarce as blackberries in midwinter, for what among books has so brief a life as a nursery book?), I was struck while perusing them with a certain distinct literary flavour, so to <span class= -"newpage"><a name="pagexiv" id="pagexiv">[xiv]</a></span>speak, +"newpage"><a id="pagexiv">[xiv]</a></span>speak, which appeared to be common to a group of little volumes, all published about the same period. These were: "Goody Two Shoes," "Giles Gingerbread," "Tom Thumb's Folio," "The Lilliputian @@ -281,8 +269,7 @@ a few others. I give abbreviated titles only, but if space permitted I mould like to quote them in full; they are remarkable no less for their curious quaintness and their clever ingenuity than for their attractiveness to both parents (who, it must not be -forgotten, are more often the real buyers <span class="newpage"><a -name="pagexv" id="pagexv">[xv]</a></span>of children's books) and +forgotten, are more often the real buyers <span class="newpage"><a id="pagexv">[xv]</a></span>of children's books) and the young people for whom they were written, and they are in themselves most entertaining and amusing reading. This group of little books possesses, moreover, another characteristic that is @@ -296,8 +283,7 @@ interest of "children of a larger growth."</p> <p>Now one of this little group, "The Lilliputian Magazine," is attributed in the British Museum Catalogue to Oliver Goldsmith; and so strong is the family likeness in all the books I have mentioned, -<span class="newpage"><a name="pagexvi" id= -"pagexvi">[xvi]</a></span>that I cannot but believe they are all by +<span class="newpage"><a id="pagexvi">[xvi]</a></span>that I cannot but believe they are all by the same hand--a belief which I think will be shared by any one who will take the trouble to compare them carefully. But I should advise him to rely on the Newbery editions alone, for grievously @@ -309,8 +295,7 @@ author of "Goody Two Shoes." Conspicuous among them was Washington Irving, who says, "It is suggested with great probability that he wrote for Mr Newbery the famous nursery story of 'Goody Two Shoes.'" It is said also that William Godwin held this opinion; and -I believe there is authority for <span class="newpage"><a name= -"pagexvii" id="pagexvii">[xvii]</a></span>stating that the Misses +I believe there is authority for <span class="newpage"><a id="pagexvii">[xvii]</a></span>stating that the Misses Bewick, the daughters of the celebrated engraver, who illustrated an edition of the book for T. Saint, of Newcastle, understood from their father that it was by Oliver Goldsmith.</p> @@ -325,8 +310,7 @@ service of Newbery (1763-4), at which period it will be remembered that he was living near Newbery at Islington, and his publisher was paying for his board and lodging.</p> -<span class="newpage"><a name="pagexviii" id= -"pagexviii">[xviii]</a></span> +<span class="newpage"><a id="pagexviii">[xviii]</a></span> <p>Without, of course, claiming that similarity of idea in different writings necessarily betokens the same authorship, I @@ -341,7 +325,7 @@ by the curious little political preface to the work--a preface which is quite unnecessary to the book, and I think would only have been inserted by one who was full of the unjustnesses at which he was preparing to aim a still heavier blow. In <span class= -"newpage"><a name="pagexix" id="pagexix">[xix]</a></span>describing +"newpage"><a id="pagexix">[xix]</a></span>describing the parish of Mouldwell, where little Margery was born, an exact picture is drawn of "The Deserted Village," where</p> @@ -367,8 +351,7 @@ Sir Timothy accomplishes his aim, and</p> <p><small> Indignant spurns the cottage from the green.</small></p> -<p>Ruined by this oppression, poor Mr <span class="newpage"><a -name="pagexx" id="pagexx">[xx]</a></span>Meanwell is turned out of +<p>Ruined by this oppression, poor Mr <span class="newpage"><a id="pagexx">[xx]</a></span>Meanwell is turned out of doors,<br> and flew to another parish for succour.</p> @@ -389,7 +372,7 @@ this: "If the conjecture be true which attributes this tale to Oliver Goldsmith, we have seen the same spirit which prompted his poem of 'The Deserted Village,' namely, indignation and dismay at the discouragement of small holdings in the early part <span class= -"newpage"><a name="pagexxi" id="pagexxi">[xxi]</a></span>of the +"newpage"><a id="pagexxi">[xxi]</a></span>of the eighteenth century."[C] Indeed, it may well be that we have in this preface even a more true picture of Lissoy than that given in the poem, which, as Mr William Black says in his monograph on @@ -402,7 +385,7 @@ but the matter of many of Goldsmith's writings. Miss Yonge says: "There is a certain dry humour in some passages and a tenderness in others that incline us much to the belief that it could come from no one else but the writer of 'The Vicar of Wakefield' <span class= -"newpage"><a name="pagexxii" id="pagexxii">[xxii]</a></span>and +"newpage"><a id="pagexxii">[xxii]</a></span>and 'The Deserted Village.' Indeed, we could almost imagine that Dr Primrose himself had described the panic at the supposed ghost in the church in the same tone as the ride to church, the family @@ -413,12 +396,11 @@ already referred to--"his genuine and tender pathos, that never at any time verges on the affected or theatrical;" his "quaint, delicate, delightful humour;" his "broader humour, that is not afraid to provoke the wholesome laughter of mankind by dealing with -common and familiar ways <span class="newpage"><a name="pagexxiii" -id="pagexxiii">[xxiii]</a></span>and manners and men;" his +common and familiar ways <span class="newpage"><a id="pagexxiii">[xxiii]</a></span>and manners and men;" his "choiceness of diction;" his "lightness and grace of touch, that lend a charm even to" his "ordinary hack work."</p> -<hr width="30%"> +<hr style="width: 30%;"> <p>The reprint which is here presented is a photographic facsimile of the earliest complete copy that we have been able to procure. Judging from fragments of earlier editions in the possession of the @@ -430,8 +412,7 @@ of eighteenth century books for children is well known. The actual size of that book is 4 inches by 2-3/4, but it has been thought better to print on somewhat larger paper. The original is bound in the once familiar Dutch flowered and gilt pattern paper, and we had -hoped to present the <span class="newpage"><a name="pagexxiv" id= -"pagexxiv">[xxiv]</a></span>reprint in a similar cover, but it was +hoped to present the <span class="newpage"><a id="pagexxiv">[xxiv]</a></span>reprint in a similar cover, but it was found impossible, as nothing like it could be procured, nor could the manufacturers of the present day exactly reproduce it.</p> @@ -450,14 +431,12 @@ preface.]</small></p> <br> <br> - <span class="newpage"><a name="pagexxv" id= -"pagexxv">[xxv]</a></span> + <span class="newpage"><a id="pagexxv">[xxv]</a></span> -<center><img src="images/image01.png" alt= -"Little Goody Two-Shoes"></center> +<div style="text-align: center"><img src="images/image01.png" alt= +"Little Goody Two-Shoes"></div> -<center><span class="newpage"><a name="page1" id= -"page1">[1]</a></span> +<div style="text-align: center"><span class="newpage"><a id="page1">[1]</a></span> <h3>T H E</h3> @@ -471,7 +450,7 @@ Otherwise called,<br> <h2>Mrs. MARGERY TWO-SHOES.</h2> <h3>W I T H</h3> -</center> +</div> <p>The Means by which she acquired her Learning and Wisdom, and in consequence thereof her Estate; set forth at large for the Benefit @@ -486,24 +465,23 @@ of those,</p> <i>Rome</i>, and the Cuts by <i>Michael Angelo</i>. Illustrated with the Comments of our great modern Critics.</p> -<center> -<hr width="80%"> +<div style="text-align: center"> +<hr style="width: 80%;"> <b>The T H I R D E D I T I O N.</b><br> -<hr width="80%"> +<hr style="width: 80%;"> <h3><i>L O N D O N :</i></h3> Printed for J. N<small>EWBERY</small>, at the <i>Bible</i> and<br> <i>Sun</i> in St. <i>Paul's-Church-Yard,</i> 1766.<br> [Price Six-pence.]<br> -</center> +</div> -<span class="newpage"><a name="page2" id="page2">[2]</a></span> +<span class="newpage"><a id="page2">[2]</a></span> <br> <br> <br> <br> -<center><span class="newpage"><a name="page3" id= -"page3">[3]</a></span> +<div style="text-align: center"><span class="newpage"><a id="page3">[3]</a></span> <h3>T O A L L</h3> @@ -517,14 +495,13 @@ Is inscribed by<br> Their old Friend<br> <br> In St. Paul's Church-yard.<br> -</center> +</div> <br> <br> <br> <br> -<center><span class="newpage"><a name="page4" id= -"page4">[4]</a></span> +<div style="text-align: center"><span class="newpage"><a id="page4">[4]</a></span> <h3>The Renowned</h3> @@ -537,10 +514,10 @@ In St. Paul's Church-yard.<br> Commonly called,<br> <h2>Old GOODY TWO-SHOES.</h2> -<hr width="80%"> +<hr style="width: 80%;"> <b>P A R T I.</b><br> -<hr width="80%"> -</center> +<hr style="width: 80%;"> +</div> <p>INTRODUCTION. By the Editor.</p> @@ -548,8 +525,7 @@ the Editor.</p> <p>All the World must allow, that <i>Two Shoes</i> was not her real Name. No; her Father's Name was <i>Meanwell</i>; and he was for many Years a considerable Farmer in the Parish where <i>Margery</i> -was born; but by the <span class="newpage"><a name="page5" id= -"page5">[5]</a></span>Misfortunes which he met with in Business, +was born; but by the <span class="newpage"><a id="page5">[5]</a></span>Misfortunes which he met with in Business, and the wicked Persecutions of Sir <i>Timothy Gripe</i>, and an over-grown Farmer called <i>Graspall</i>, he was effectually ruined.</p> @@ -565,8 +541,7 @@ came into the Hands of Sir <i>Timothy</i>.</p> Neighbours, thought it less Trouble to write one Receipt for his Rent than twelve, and Farmer <i>Graspall</i> offering to take all the Farms as the Leases expired, Sir <i>Timothy</i> agreed with -him, and in Process of <span class="newpage"><a name="page6" id= -"page6">[6]</a></span>Time he was possessed of every Farm, but that +him, and in Process of <span class="newpage"><a id="page6">[6]</a></span>Time he was possessed of every Farm, but that occupied by little <i>Margery's</i> Father; which he also wanted; for as Mr. <i>Meanwell</i> was a charitable good Man, he stood up for the Poor at the Parish Meetings, and was unwilling to have them @@ -578,8 +553,7 @@ from his hard Heart and cruel Hand. But he was not only perpetual Overseer, but perpetual Church-warden; and judge, oh ye Christians, what State the Church must be in, when supported by a Man without Religion or Virtue. He was also perpetual Surveyor of the Highways, -and what Sort of Roads he kept up for the <span class="newpage"><a -name="page7" id="page7">[7]</a></span>Convenience of Travellers, +and what Sort of Roads he kept up for the <span class="newpage"><a id="page7">[7]</a></span>Convenience of Travellers, those best know who have had the Misfortune to be obliged to pass thro' that Parish.--Complaints indeed were made, but to what Purpose are Complaints, when brought against a Man, who can hunt, @@ -593,8 +567,7 @@ Lease, ordered both a Brick Kiln and a Dog-kennel to be erected in the Farmer's Orchard. This was contrary to Law, and a Suit was commenced, in which <i>Margery's</i> Father got the better. The same Offence was again committed three different Times, and as many -Actions brought, <span class="newpage"><a name="page8" id= -"page8">[8]</a></span>in all of which the Farmer had a Verdict and +Actions brought, <span class="newpage"><a id="page8">[8]</a></span>in all of which the Farmer had a Verdict and Costs paid him; but notwithstanding these Advantages, the Law was so expensive, that he was ruined in the Contest, and obliged to give up all he had to his Creditors; which effectually answered the @@ -606,14 +579,12 @@ Poor; and especially when a rich Man is their Adversary. How, in the Name of Goodness, can a poor Wretch obtain Redress, when thirty Pounds are insufficient to try his Cause? Where is he to find Money to see Council, or how can he plead his Cause himself (even if he -<span class="newpage"><a name="page9" id="page9">[9]</a></span>was +<span class="newpage"><a id="page9">[9]</a></span>was permitted) when our Laws are so obscure, and so multiplied, that an Abridgment of them cannot be contained in fifty Volumes in Folio?</p> -<img src="images/image02.png" width="270" height="210" alt= -"turned the Farmer, his Wife, little Margery, and her Brother out of Doors" - border="0" align="right"> +<img src="images/image02.png" alt= "turned the Farmer, his Wife, little Margery, and her Brother out of Doors" class="fright" style="width: 270px; height: 210px; border: none"> <p>As soon as Mr. <i>Meanwell</i> had called together his Creditors, Sir <i>Timothy</i> seized for a Year's Rent, and turned @@ -622,7 +593,7 @@ Doors, without any of the Necessaries of Life to support them.</p> <p>[Illustration]</p> -<span class="newpage"><a name="page10" id="page10">[10]</a></span> +<span class="newpage"><a id="page10">[10]</a></span> <p>This elated the Heart of Mr. <i>Graspall</i>, this crowned his Hopes, and filled the Measure of his Iniquity; for besides @@ -638,8 +609,7 @@ and the blind were obliged to stay behind, and whether they were starved, or what became of them, History does not say; but the Character of the great Sir <i>Timothy</i>, and his avaricious Tenant, were so infamous, that nobody would work for them by the -Day, and <span class="newpage"><a name="page11" id= -"page11">[11]</a></span>Servants were afraid to engage themselves +Day, and <span class="newpage"><a id="page11">[11]</a></span>Servants were afraid to engage themselves by the Year, lest any unforeseen Accident should leave them Parishioners in a Place, where they knew they must perish miserably; so that great Part of the Land lay untilled for some @@ -653,8 +623,7 @@ from another Hand. This is not the Book, Sir, mentioned in the Title, but the Introduction to that Book; and it is intended, Sir, not for those Sort of Children, but for Children of six Feet high, of which, as my Friend has justly observed, there are many Millions -in the Kingdom; and these <span class="newpage"><a name="page12" -id="page12">[12]</a></span>Reflections, Sir, have been rendered +in the Kingdom; and these <span class="newpage"><a id="page12">[12]</a></span>Reflections, Sir, have been rendered necessary, by the unaccountable and diabolical Scheme which many Gentlemen now give into, of laying a Number of Farms into one, and very often of a whole Parish into one Farm; which in the End must @@ -664,22 +633,20 @@ will in Time depopulate the Kingdom. But as you are tired of the Subject, I shall take myself away, and you may visit <i>Little Margery</i>. So, Sir, your Servant,</p> -<p align="right">The E<small>DITOR</small>.</p> +<p style="text-align: right;">The E<small>DITOR</small>.</p> <br> <br> <br> <br> -<center><span class="newpage"><a name="page13" id= -"page13">[13]</a></span> +<div style="text-align: center"><span class="newpage"><a id="page13">[13]</a></span> <h3>C H A P. I.</h3> <p><i>How and about Little</i> Margery <i>and her</i> Brother.</p> -</center> +</div> -<center><img src="images/image03.png" width="256" height="209" alt= -"Margery' father seized with a violent Fever" border="0"></center> +<div style="text-align: center"><img src="images/image03.png" alt= "Margery' father seized with a violent Fever" style="width: 256px; height: 209px; border: none"></div> <p>Care and Discontent shortened the Days of Little <i>Margery's</i> Father.--He was forced from his Family, and seized @@ -690,8 +657,7 @@ a broken Heart, leaving <i>Margery</i> and her little Brother to the wide World; but, poor Woman, it would have melted your Heart to have seen how frequently she heaved up her Head, while she lay speechless, to survey with languishing Looks her little Orphans, -<span class="newpage"><a name="page14" id= -"page14">[14]</a></span>as much as to say, <i>Do Tommy, do Margery, +<span class="newpage"><a id="page14">[14]</a></span>as much as to say, <i>Do Tommy, do Margery, come with me</i>. They cried, poor Things, and she sighed away her Soul; and I hope is happy.</p> @@ -700,18 +666,16 @@ good, to have seen how fond these two little ones were of each other, and how, Hand in Hand, they trotted about. Pray see them.</p> -<center><img src="images/image04.png" width="260" height="218" alt= -"Hand in Hand" border="0"></center> +<div style="text-align: center"><img src="images/image04.png" alt= "Hand in Hand" style="width: 260px; height: 218px; border: none"></div> -<span class="newpage"><a name="page15" id="page15">[15]</a></span> +<span class="newpage"><a id="page15">[15]</a></span> <p>They were both very ragged, and <i>Tommy</i> had two Shoes, but <i>Margery</i> had but one. They had nothing, poor Things, to support them (not being in their own Parish) but what they picked from the Hedges, or got from the poor People, and they lay every Night in a Barn. Their Relations took no Notice of them; no, they -were rich, and ashamed to own <span class="newpage"><a name= -"page16" id="page16">[16]</a></span>such a poor little ragged Girl +were rich, and ashamed to own <span class="newpage"><a id="page16">[16]</a></span>such a poor little ragged Girl as <i>Margery</i>, and such a dirty little curl-pated Boy as <i>Tommy</i>. Our Relations and Friends seldom take Notice of us when we are poor; but as we grow rich they grow fond. And this will @@ -725,18 +689,16 @@ by.</p> <br> <br> <br> -<center> +<div style="text-align: center"> <h3>C H A P. II.</h3> <p><i>How and about Mr.</i> Smith.</p> -</center> +</div> -<center><img src="images/image05.png" width="268" height="211" alt= -"Mr. Smith" border="0"></center> +<div style="text-align: center"><img src="images/image05.png" alt= "Mr. Smith" style="width: 268px; height: 211px; border: none"></div> <p>Mr. <i>Smith</i> was a very worthy Clergyman, who lived in the -Parish where Little <i>Margery</i> and <span class="newpage"><a -name="page17" id="page17">[17]</a></span><i>Tommy</i> were born; +Parish where Little <i>Margery</i> and <span class="newpage"><a id="page17">[17]</a></span><i>Tommy</i> were born; and having a Relation come to see him, who was a charitable good Man, he sent for these Children to him. The Gentleman ordered Little <i>Margery</i> a new Pair of Shoes, gave Mr. <i>Smith</i> @@ -745,22 +707,19 @@ some Money to buy her Cloathes; and said, he would take Jacket and Trowsers made for him, in which he now appears. Pray look at him.</p> -<span class="newpage"><a name="page18" id="page18">[18]</a></span> +<span class="newpage"><a id="page18">[18]</a></span> <p>After some Days the Gentleman intended to go to <i>London</i>, and take little <i>Tommy</i> with him, of whom you will know more by and by, for we shall at a proper Time present you with some Part of his History, his Travels and Adventures.</p> -<img src="images/image06.png" width="171" height="139" alt= -"Tommy wiped off her Tears with the End of his Jacket" border="0" -align="right"> +<img src="images/image06.png" alt= "Tommy wiped off her Tears with the End of his Jacket" class="fright" style="width: 171px; height: 139px; border: none"> <p>The Parting between these two little Children was very affecting, <i>Tommy</i> cried, and <i>Margery</i> cried, and they kissed each other an hundred Times. At last <i>Tommy</i> thus wiped -off her Tears <span class="newpage"><a name="page19" id= -"page19">[19]</a></span>with the End of his Jacket, and bid her cry +off her Tears <span class="newpage"><a id="page19">[19]</a></span>with the End of his Jacket, and bid her cry no more, for that he would come to her again, when he returned from Sea. However, as they were so very fond, the Gentleman would not suffer them to take Leave of each other; but told <i>Tommy</i> he @@ -773,19 +732,17 @@ crying to Bed.</p> <br> <br> <br> -<center> +<div style="text-align: center"> <h3>C H A P. III.</h3> <p><i>How Little</i> Margery <i>obtained the Name of</i><br> Goody Two-Shoes, <i>and what happened in the Parish.</i></p> -</center> +</div> -<img src="images/image07.png" width="369" height="297" alt= -"Two Shoes, Mame, see two Shoes" border="0" align="left"> +<img src="images/image07.png" alt= "Two Shoes, Mame, see two Shoes" class="fleft" style="width: 369px; height: 297px; border: none"> <p>As soon as Little <i>Margery</i> got up in the Morning, which -was <span class="newpage"><a name="page20" id= -"page20">[20]</a></span>very early, she ran all round the Village, +was <span class="newpage"><a id="page20">[20]</a></span>very early, she ran all round the Village, crying for her Brother; and after some Time returned greatly distressed. However, at this Instant, the Shoemaker very opportunely came in with the new Shoes, for which she had been @@ -795,16 +752,14 @@ measured by the Gentleman's Order.</p> Affliction she was in for the Loss of her Brother, but the Pleasure she took in her <i>two Shoes</i>. She ran out to Mrs. <i>Smith</i> as soon as they were put on, and stroking down her ragged Apron -thus, <span class="newpage"><a name="page21" id= -"page21">[21]</a></span>cried out, <i>Two Shoes, Mame, see two +thus, <span class="newpage"><a id="page21">[21]</a></span>cried out, <i>Two Shoes, Mame, see two Shoes</i>. And so she behaved to all the People she met, and by that Means obtained the Name of <i>Goody Two-Shoes</i>, though her Playmates called her <i>Old Goody Two-Shoes</i>.</p> <p>Little <i>Margery</i> was very happy in being with Mr. and Mrs. <i>Smith</i>, who were very charitable and good to her, and had -agreed to breed her up with <span class="newpage"><a name="page22" -id="page22">[22]</a></span>their Family; but as soon as that Tyrant +agreed to breed her up with <span class="newpage"><a id="page22">[22]</a></span>their Family; but as soon as that Tyrant of the Parish, that <i>Graspall</i>, heard of her being there, he applied first to Mr. <i>Smith</i>, and threatened to reduce his Tythes if he kept her; and after that he spoke to Sir @@ -819,26 +774,23 @@ Throne of Heaven, as will be seen in the Sequel.</p> <p>Mrs. <i>Smith</i> was also greatly concerned at being thus obliged to discard poor Little <i>Margery</i>. She kissed her and -cried; <span class="newpage"><a name="page23" id= -"page23">[23]</a></span>as also did Mr. <i>Smith</i>, but they were +cried; <span class="newpage"><a id="page23">[23]</a></span>as also did Mr. <i>Smith</i>, but they were obliged to send her away; for the People who had ruined her Father could at any Time have ruined them.</p> -<center><img src="images/image08.png" width="386" height="290" alt= -"Mr. Smith kissed her" border="0"></center> +<div style="text-align: center"><img src="images/image08.png" alt= "Mr. Smith kissed her" style="width: 386px; height: 290px; border: none"></div> <br> <br> <br> <br> -<center><span class="newpage"><a name="page24" id= -"page24">[24]</a></span> +<div style="text-align: center"><span class="newpage"><a id="page24">[24]</a></span> <h3>C H A P. IV.</h3> <p><i>How Little</i> Margery <i>learned to read,<br> and by Degrees taught others.</i></p> -</center> +</div> <p>Little <i>Margery</i> saw how good, and how wise Mr. <i>Smith</i> was, and concluded, that this was owing to his great @@ -847,33 +799,32 @@ this Purpose she used to meet the little Boys and Girls as they came from School, borrow their Books, and sit down and read till they returned;</p> -<center><img src="images/image09.png" width="354" height="293" alt= -"Boys and Girls sit down and read" border="0"></center> +<div style="text-align: center"><img src="images/image09.png" alt= "Boys and Girls sit down and read" style="width: 354px; height: 293px; border: none"></div> -<span class="newpage"><a name="page25" id="page25">[25]</a></span> +<span class="newpage"><a id="page25">[25]</a></span> <p>By this Means she soon got more Learning than any of her Playmates, and laid the following Scheme for instructing those who were more ignorant than herself. She found, that only the following Letters were required to spell all the Words in the World; but as some of these Letters are large and some small, she with<span -class="newpage"><a name="page26" id="page26">[26]</a></span> her +class="newpage"><a id="page26">[26]</a></span> her Knife cut out of several Pieces of Wood ten Setts of each of these:</p> -<center>a b c d +<div style="text-align: center">a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o<br> p q r (s) s t u v w x y z.<br> -</center> +</div> <p><small>[Post-processor's note: (s) is an old-English style non-terminating letter "s".]</small></p> -<center>And six Setts of these:<br> +<div style="text-align: center">And six Setts of these:<br> <br> A B C D E F G H @@ -882,7 +833,7 @@ N O<br> P Q R S T U V W X Y Z.<br> -</center> +</div> <p>And having got an old Spelling-Book, she made her Companions set up all the Words they wanted to spell, and after that she taught @@ -891,8 +842,7 @@ them to compose Sentences. You know what a Sentence is, my Dear, of several Words.</p> <p>The usual Manner of Spelling, or carrying on the Game, as they -called <span class="newpage"><a name="page27" id= -"page27">[27]</a></span>it, was this: Suppose the Word to be spelt +called <span class="newpage"><a id="page27">[27]</a></span>it, was this: Suppose the Word to be spelt was Plumb Pudding (and who can suppose a better) the Children were placed in a Circle, and the first brought the Letter <i>P</i>, the next <i>l</i>, the next <i>u</i>, the next <i>m</i>, and so on till @@ -901,10 +851,9 @@ to pay a Fine, or play no more. This was at their Play; and every Morning she used to go round to teach the Children with these Rattle-traps in a Basket, as you see in the Print.</p> -<center><img src="images/image10.png" width="275" height="212" alt= -"Rattle-traps in a Basket" border="0"></center> +<div style="text-align: center"><img src="images/image10.png" alt= "Rattle-traps in a Basket" style="width: 275px; height: 212px; border: none"></div> -<span class="newpage"><a name="page28" id="page28">[28]</a></span> +<span class="newpage"><a id="page28">[28]</a></span> <p>I once went her Rounds with her, and was highly diverted, as you may be, if you please to look into the next Chapter.</p> @@ -913,35 +862,32 @@ may be, if you please to look into the next Chapter.</p> <br> <br> <br> -<center> +<div style="text-align: center"> <h3>C H A P. V.</h3> <p><i>How Little</i> Two-Shoes <i>became a trotting Tutoress<br> and how she taught her young Pupils.</i></p> -</center> +</div> <p>It was about seven o'Clock in the Morning when we set out on -this <span class="newpage"><a name="page29" id= -"page29">[29]</a></span>important Business, and the first House we +this <span class="newpage"><a id="page29">[29]</a></span>important Business, and the first House we came to was Farmer <i>Wilson's</i>. See here it is.</p> -<center><img src="images/image11.png" width="344" height="285" alt= -"Farmer Wilson's house" border="0"></center> +<div style="text-align: center"><img src="images/image11.png" alt= "Farmer Wilson's house" style="width: 344px; height: 285px; border: none"></div> <p>Here <i>Margery</i> stopped, and ran up to the Door, <i>Tap, tap, tap</i>. Who's there? Only little goody <i>Two-Shoes</i>, answered <i>Margery</i>, come to teach <i>Billy</i>. Oh Little <i>Goody</i>, says Mrs. <i>Wilson</i>, with Pleasure in her Face, I -am glad to see you, <i>Billy</i> wants <span class="newpage"><a -name="page30" id="page30">[30]</a></span>you sadly, for he has +am glad to see you, <i>Billy</i> wants <span class="newpage"><a id="page30">[30]</a></span>you sadly, for he has learned all his Lesson. Then out came the little Boy. <i>How do doody Two-Shoes</i>, says he, not able to speak plain. Yet this little Boy had learned all his Letters; for she threw down this Alphabet mixed together thus:</p> -<span class="newpage"><a name="page31" id="page31">[31]</a></span> +<span class="newpage"><a id="page31">[31]</a></span> -<center>b d f h +<div style="text-align: center">b d f h k m o q s u w y z [s]<br> @@ -949,12 +895,12 @@ a c e g i l n p r t v x j<br> <br> -</center> +</div> <p>and he picked them up, called them by their right Names, and put them all in order thus:</p> -<center>a b c d +<div style="text-align: center">a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o<br> @@ -962,7 +908,7 @@ p q r (s) s t u v w x y z.<br> <br> -</center> +</div> <p><small>[Post-processor's note: (s) is an old-English style non-terminating letter "s".]</small></p> @@ -970,26 +916,26 @@ non-terminating letter "s".]</small></p> <p>She then threw down the Alphabet of Capital Letters in the Manner you here see them.</p> -<center>B D F H +<div style="text-align: center">B D F H K M O Q S U W Y Z<br> A C E G I L N P R T V X J.<br> <br> -</center> +</div> <p>and he picked them all up, and having told their Names, placed them thus:</p> -<center>A B C D +<div style="text-align: center">A B C D E F G H I J K L M<br> N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z.<br> <br> -</center> +</div> <p>Now, pray little Reader, take this Bodkin, and see if you can point out the Letters from these mixed Alphabets, and tell how they @@ -998,10 +944,9 @@ should be placed as well as little Boy <i>Billy</i>.</p> <p>The next Place we came to was Farmer <i>Simpson's</i>, and here it is.</p> -<span class="newpage"><a name="page32" id="page32">[32]</a></span> +<span class="newpage"><a id="page32">[32]</a></span> -<center><img src="images/image12.png" width="344" height="277" alt= -"Farmer Simpson's house" border="0"></center> +<div style="text-align: center"><img src="images/image12.png" alt= "Farmer Simpson's house" style="width: 344px; height: 277px; border: none"></div> <p><i>Bow wow, wow</i>, says the Dog at the Door. Sirrah, says his Mistress, what do you bark at Little <i>Two-Shoes</i>. Come in @@ -1009,30 +954,30 @@ Mistress, what do you bark at Little <i>Two-Shoes</i>. Come in all her Lesson. Then out came the little one: So <i>Madge!</i> say she; so <i>Sally!</i> answered the other, have you learned your Lesson? Yes, that's what I have, replied the little one in <span -class="newpage"><a name="page33" id="page33">[33]</a></span>the +class="newpage"><a id="page33">[33]</a></span>the Country Manner; and immediately taking the Letters she set up these Syllables:</p> -<center>ba be bi bo +<div style="text-align: center">ba be bi bo bu, ca ce ci co cu<br> da de di do du, fa fe fi -so fu.<br> +fo fu.<br> <br> -</center> +</div> <p>and gave them their exact Sounds as she composed them; after which she set up the following;</p> -<center>ac ec ic oc +<div style="text-align: center">ac ec ic oc uc, ad ed id od ud<br> af ef if of uf, ag eg ig og ug.<br> <br> -</center> +</div> <p>And pronounced them likewise. She then sung the Cuzz's Chorus (which may be found in the <i>Little Pretty Play Thing</i>, @@ -1041,20 +986,17 @@ N<small> E W B E R Y</small>) and to the same Tune to which it is there set.</p> <p>After this, Little <i>Two-Shoes</i> taught her to spell Words of -one Syllable, <span class="newpage"><a name="page34" id= -"page34">[34]</a></span>and she soon set up Pear, Plumb. Top, Ball, +one Syllable, <span class="newpage"><a id="page34">[34]</a></span>and she soon set up Pear, Plumb. Top, Ball, Pin, Puss, Dog, Hog, Fawn, Buck, Doe, Lamb, Sheep, Ram, Cow, Bull, Cock, Hen, and many more.</p> <p>The next Place we came to was <i>Gaffer Cook's</i> Cottage; there you see it before you.</p> -<center><img src="images/image13.png" width="349" height="278" alt= -"Gaffer Cook's Cottage" border="0"></center> +<div style="text-align: center"><img src="images/image13.png" alt= "Gaffer Cook's Cottage" style="width: 349px; height: 278px; border: none"></div> <p>Here a number of poor Children were met to learn; who all came -<span class="newpage"><a name="page35" id= -"page35">[35]</a></span>round Little <i>Margery</i> at once; and, +<span class="newpage"><a id="page35">[35]</a></span>round Little <i>Margery</i> at once; and, having pulled out her Letters, she asked the little Boy next her, what he had for Dinner? Who answered, <i>Bread</i>. (the poor Children in many Places live very hard) Well then, says she, set @@ -1070,7 +1012,7 @@ two Words Apple and Pye were united and stood thus, <p>The next had <i>Potatoes</i>, the next <i>Beef and Turnip</i> which were spelt with many others, till the Game <span class= -"newpage"><a name="page36" id="page36">[36]</a></span>of Spelling +"newpage"><a id="page36">[36]</a></span>of Spelling was finished. She then set them another Task, and we proceeded.</p> <p>The next Place we came to was Farmer <i>Thompson's</i>, where @@ -1084,8 +1026,7 @@ and so has <i>Sally Dawson</i>, and so has <i>Harry Wilson</i>, and so we have all; and they capered about as if they were overjoyed to see her. Why then, says she, you are all very good, and G<small>OD</small> Almighty will love you; so let us begin our -Lessons. They all huddled round <span class="newpage"><a name= -"page37" id="page37">[37]</a></span>her, and though at the other +Lessons. They all huddled round <span class="newpage"><a id="page37">[37]</a></span>her, and though at the other Place they were employed about Words and Syllables, here we had People of much greater Understanding who dealt only in Sentences.</p> @@ -1105,7 +1046,7 @@ Neighbour as myself, and do unto all Men as I would have them do unto me, and tell no Lies; but be honest and just in all my Dealings.</i></p> -<span class="newpage"><a name="page38" id="page38">[38]</a></span> +<span class="newpage"><a id="page38">[38]</a></span> <p>The third composed the following Sentence.</p> @@ -1124,15 +1065,14 @@ did not know why she should pray for her Enemies? Not pray for your Enemies, says Little <i>Margery</i>; yes, you must, you are no Christian, if you don't forgive your Enemies, and do Good for Evil. <i>Polly</i> still pouted; upon which Little <i>Margery</i> said, -though she was <span class="newpage"><a name="page39" id= -"page39">[39]</a></span>poor, and obliged to lie in a Barn, she +though she was <span class="newpage"><a id="page39">[39]</a></span>poor, and obliged to lie in a Barn, she would not keep Company with such a naughty, proud, perverse Girl as <i>Polly</i>; and was going away; however the Difference was made up, and she set them to compose the following</p> <br> -<center><big>L E S -S O N S</big> +<div style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: larger">L E S +S O N S</span> <p>For the C<small> O N @@ -1141,7 +1081,7 @@ D U C T</small> <p>L<small> E S S O N</small> I.</p> -</center> +</div> <p> He that will thrive,<br> Must rise by Five.<br> @@ -1151,16 +1091,16 @@ S O N</small> I.</p> But cannot be sham'd.<br> Tell me with whom you go;<br> And I'll tell what you do.<br> -<span class="newpage"><a name="page40" id="page40">[40]</a></span> +<span class="newpage"><a id="page40">[40]</a></span> A Friend in your Need,<br> Is a Friend indeed.<br> They ne'er can be wise,<br> Who good Counsel despise.</p> -<center> +<div style="text-align: center"> <p>L<small> E S S O N</small> II.</p> -</center> +</div> <p> A wise Head makes a close Mouth.<br> Don't burn your Lips with another Man's Broth.<br> @@ -1173,16 +1113,16 @@ it.<br> Where Pride goes, Shame will follow.<br> When Vice enters the Room, Vengeance is near the Door.<br> -<span class="newpage"><a name="page41" id="page41">[41]</a></span> +<span class="newpage"><a id="page41">[41]</a></span> Industry is Fortune's right Hand, and Frugality her left.<br> Make much of Three-pence, or you ne'er will be worth a Groat.</p> -<center> +<div style="text-align: center"> <p>L<small> E S S O N</small> III.</p> -</center> +</div> <p> A Lie stands upon one Leg, but Truth upon two.<br> When a Man talks much, believe but half what he @@ -1194,15 +1134,15 @@ says.<br> Contentment is the best Fortune.<br> A contented Mind is a continual Feast.</p> -<center> +<div style="text-align: center"> <p>A L<small> E S S O N</small> in Religion.</p> -</center> +</div> <p> Love G<small>OD</small>, for he is good.<br> Fear G<small>OD</small>, for he is just.<br> -<span class="newpage"><a name="page42" id="page42">[42]</a></span> +<span class="newpage"><a id="page42">[42]</a></span> Pray to G<small>OD</small>, for all good Things come from him.<br> Praise G<small>OD</small>, for great is his Mercy @@ -1219,15 +1159,15 @@ G<small>OD</small>.<br> Account to G<small>OD</small>, how we on Earth did live.</p> -<center> +<div style="text-align: center"> <p>A Moral L<small> E S S O N</small>.</p> -</center> +</div> <p> A good Boy will make a good Man.<br> Honour your Parents, and the World will honour you.<br> -<span class="newpage"><a name="page43" id="page43">[43]</a></span> +<span class="newpage"><a id="page43">[43]</a></span> Love your Friends, and your Friends will love you.<br> He that swims in Sin, will sink in Sorrow.<br> Learn to live, as you would wish to die.<br> @@ -1242,18 +1182,16 @@ ill, he began to joke with Little <i>Margery</i>, and said, laughingly, so, <i>Goody Two-Shoes</i>, they tell me you are a cunning little Baggage; pray, can you tell me what I shall do to get well? Yes, Sir, says she, go to Bed when <span class= -"newpage"><a name="page44" id="page44">[44]</a></span>your Rooks +"newpage"><a id="page44">[44]</a></span>your Rooks do. You see they are going to Rest already:</p> -<center><img src="images/image14.png" width="351" height="291" alt= -"they are going to Rest" border="0"></center> +<div style="text-align: center"><img src="images/image14.png" alt= "they are going to Rest" style="width: 351px; height: 291px; border: none"></div> <p>Do you so likewise, and get up with them in the morning; earn, as they do, every Day what you eat, and eat and drink no more than you earn; and you'll get Health and keep it. What should induce the Rooks to frequent Gentlemens Houses only, but to tell them how to -lead a <span class="newpage"><a name="page45" id= -"page45">[45]</a></span>prudent Life? They never build over +lead a <span class="newpage"><a id="page45">[45]</a></span>prudent Life? They never build over Cottages or Farm-houses, because they see, that these People know how to live without their Admonition.</p> @@ -1267,39 +1205,35 @@ her she was a sensible Hussey.</p> <br> <br> <br> -<center> +<div style="text-align: center"> <h3>C H A P. VI.</h3> <p><i>How the whole Parish was frighted.</i></p> -</center> +</div> <p>Who does not know Lady <i>Ducklington</i>, or who does not know that she was buried at this Parish Church?</p> -<span class="newpage"><a name="page46" id="page46">[xxx]</a></span> +<span class="newpage"><a id="page46">[xxx]</a></span> -<center><img src="images/image15.png" width="366" height="284" alt= -"Parish Church" border="0"></center> +<div style="text-align: center"><img src="images/image15.png" alt= "Parish Church" style="width: 366px; height: 284px; border: none"></div> <p>Well, I never saw so grand a Funeral in all my Life; but the Money they squandered away, would have been better laid out in little Books for Children, or in Meat, Drink, and Cloaths for the Poor.</p> -<img src="images/image16.png" width="299" height="233" alt= -"Fine Hearse" border="0" align="left"> +<img src="images/image16.png" alt= "Fine Hearse" class="fleft" style="width: 299px; height: 233px; border: none"> -<p>This if a fine Hearse indeed, and the nodding Plumes on the -Horses <span class="newpage"><a name="page47" id= -"page47">[47]</a></span>look very grand; but what End does that +<p>This is a fine Hearse indeed, and the nodding Plumes on the +Horses <span class="newpage"><a id="page47">[47]</a></span>look very grand; but what End does that answer, otherwise than to display the Pride of the Living, or the Vanity of the Dead. Fie upon such Folly, say I, and Heaven grant that those who want more Sense may have it.</p> <p>But all the Country round came to see the Burying, and it was -late before the Corpse was interred. <span class="newpage"><a name= -"page48" id="page48">[48]</a></span>After which, in the Night, or +late before the Corpse was interred. <span class="newpage"><a id="page48">[48]</a></span>After which, in the Night, or rather about Four o'Clock in the Morning, the Bells were heard to jingle in the Steeple, which frightened the People prodigiously, who all thought it was Lady <i>Ducklington</i> 's Ghost dancing @@ -1312,8 +1246,7 @@ go into the Church; and see who was there. I go, Sir, says <i>William</i>, why the Ghost would frighten me out of my Wits.--Mrs. <i>Dobbins</i> too cried, and laying hold of her Husband said, he should not be eat up by the Ghost. A Ghost, you -Blockheads, says Mr. <span class="newpage"><a name="page49" id= -"page49">[49]</a></span><i>Long</i> in a Pet, did either of you +Blockheads, says Mr. <span class="newpage"><a id="page49">[49]</a></span><i>Long</i> in a Pet, did either of you ever see a Ghost, or know any Body that did? Yes, says the Clerk, my Father did once in the Shape of a Windmill, and it walked all round the Church in a white Sheet, with Jack Boots on, and had a @@ -1326,42 +1259,39 @@ what Sort of a Ghost do ye think appeared? Why Little <i>Two-Shoes</i>, who being weary, had fallen asleep in one of the Pews during the Funeral Service, and was shut in all Night. She immediately asked Mr. <i>Long</i> 's Pardon for the <span class= -"newpage"><a name="page50" id="page50">[50]</a></span>Trouble she +"newpage"><a id="page50">[50]</a></span>Trouble she had given him, told him, she had been locked into the Church, and said, she should not have rung the Bells, but that she was very cold, and hearing Farmer <i>Boult</i> 's Man go whistling by with his Horses, she was in Hopes he would have went to the Clerk for the Key to let her out.</p> -<center><img src="images/image17.png" width="371" height="290" alt= -"Sleepy Two-Shoes" border="0"></center> +<div style="text-align: center"><img src="images/image17.png" alt= "Sleepy Two-Shoes" style="width: 371px; height: 290px; border: none"></div> <br> <br> <br> <br> -<center><span class="newpage"><a name="page51" id= -"page51">[51]</a></span> +<div style="text-align: center"><span class="newpage"><a id="page51">[51]</a></span> <h3>C H A P. VII.</h3> <p><i>Containing an Account of all the Spirits,<br> or Ghosts, she saw in the Church.</i></p> -</center> +</div> <p>The People were ashamed to ask Little <i>Madge</i> any Questions before Mr. <i>Long</i>, but as soon as he was gone, they all got round her to satisfy their Curiousity, and desired she would give them a particular Account of all that she had heard and seen.</p> -<center> +<div style="text-align: center"> <h3>Her T A L E.</h3> -</center> +</div> <p>I went to the Church, said she, as most of you did last Night, to see the Burying, and being very weary, I sate me down in Mr. -<i>Jones</i>'s Pew, <span class="newpage"><a name="page52" id= -"page52">[52]</a></span>and fell fast asleep. At Eleven of the +<i>Jones</i>'s Pew, <span class="newpage"><a id="page52">[52]</a></span>and fell fast asleep. At Eleven of the Clock I awoke; which I believe was in some measure occasioned by the Clock's striking, for I heard it. I started up, and could not at first tell where I was; but after some Time I recollected the @@ -1373,8 +1303,7 @@ afraid at first; however, I considered that I had always been constant at Prayers and at Church, and that I had done nobody any Harm, but had endeavoured to do what Good I could; and then, thought I, what have I to fear? yet I kneeled down to say my -Prayers. As soon as I was on my Knees <span class="newpage"><a -name="page53" id="page53">[53]</a></span>something very cold, as +Prayers. As soon as I was on my Knees <span class="newpage"><a id="page53">[53]</a></span>something very cold, as cold as Marble, ay, as cold as Ice, touched my Neck, which made me start; however, I continued my Prayers, and having begged Protection from Almighty G<small>OD</small>, I found my Spirits @@ -1387,8 +1316,7 @@ down the Church Isle, when I heard something, pit pat, pit pat, pit pat, come after me, and something touched my Hand, which seemed as cold as a Marble Monument. I could not think what this was, yet I knew it could not hurt me, and therefore I made myself easy, but -being very cold, and <span class="newpage"><a name="page54" id= -"page54">[54]</a></span>the Church being paved with Stone, which +being very cold, and <span class="newpage"><a id="page54">[54]</a></span>the Church being paved with Stone, which was very damp, I felt my Way as well as I could to the Pulpit, in doing which something brushed by me, and almost threw me down. However I was not frightened, for I knew, that G<small>OD</small> @@ -1402,7 +1330,7 @@ concluded it must be Mr. <i>Saunderson</i> 's Dog, which had followed me from their House to Church, so I opened the Door, and called <i>Snip, Snip</i>, and the Dog jumped up upon me immediately. After this <i>Snip</i> and I lay down together, <span -class="newpage"><a name="page55" id="page55">[55]</a></span>and had +class="newpage"><a id="page55">[55]</a></span>and had a most comfortable Nap; for when I awoke again it was almost light. I then walked up and down all the Isles of the Church to keep myself warm; and though I went into the Vault, and trod on Lady @@ -1415,17 +1343,16 @@ G<small>OD</small> Almighty, and keeps his Commandments, may as safely lie in the Church, or the Church-yard, as any where else, if they take Care not to get Cold; for I am sure there are no Ghosts, either to hurt, or to frighten them; though any one possessed of -Fear <span class="newpage"><a name="page56" id= -"page56">[56]</a></span>might have taken Neighbour +Fear <span class="newpage"><a id="page56">[56]</a></span>might have taken Neighbour <i>Saunderson</i> 's Dog with his cold Nose for a Ghost; and if they had not been undeceived, as I was, would never have thought otherwise. All the Company acknowledged the Justness of the Observation, and thanked Little <i>Two-Shoes</i> for her Advice.</p> -<center>R E F +<div style="text-align: center">R E F L E C T -I O N.</center> +I O N.</div> <br> <br> @@ -1443,8 +1370,7 @@ these imaginary Evils.</p> <br> <br> <br> -<center><span class="newpage"><a name="page57" id= -"page57">[57]</a></span> +<div style="text-align: center"><span class="newpage"><a id="page57">[57]</a></span> <h3>C H A P. VIII.</h3> @@ -1453,23 +1379,20 @@ these imaginary Evils.</p> <i>in a Barn, more dreadful than the Ghost in the Church;<br> and how she returned Good for Evil to her Enemy Sir</i> Timothy.</p> -</center> +</div> -<img src="images/image18.png" width="336" height="293" alt= -"Farmer's Barn" border="0" align="right"> +<img src="images/image18.png" alt= "Farmer's Barn" class="fright" style="width: 336px; height: 293px; border: none"> <p>Some Days after this a more dreadful Accident befel Little <i>Madge</i>. She happened to be coming late from teaching, when it rained, thundered, and lightened, and therefore she took Shelter in -a Farmer's Barn <span class="newpage"><a name="page58" id= -"page58">[58]</a></span>at a Distance from the Village. Soon after, +a Farmer's Barn <span class="newpage"><a id="page58">[58]</a></span>at a Distance from the Village. Soon after, the Tempest drove in four Thieves, who, not seeing such a little creep-mouse Girl as <i>Two-Shoes</i>, lay down on the Hay next to her, and began to talk over their Exploits, and to settle Plans for future Robberies. Little <i>Margery</i> on hearing them, covered herself with Straw. To be sure she was sadly frighted, but her good -<span class="newpage"><a name="page59" id= -"page59">[59]</a></span>Sense taught her, that the only Security +<span class="newpage"><a id="page59">[59]</a></span>Sense taught her, that the only Security she had was in keeping herself concealed; therefore she laid very still, and breathed very softly. About Four o'Clock these wicked People came to a Resolution to break both Sir <i>William Dove's</i> @@ -1482,8 +1405,7 @@ in her Situation. Early in the Morning she went to Sir <i>William</i>, and told him the whole of their Conversation. Upon which, he asked her Name, gave her Something, and bid her call at his House the Day following. She also went to Sir <i>Timothy</i> -<span class="newpage"><a name="page60" id= -"page60">[60]</a></span>notwithstanding he had used her so ill; for +<span class="newpage"><a id="page60">[60]</a></span>notwithstanding he had used her so ill; for she knew it was her Duty to <i>do Good for Evil</i>. As soon as he was informed who she was, he took no Notice of her; upon which she desired to speak to Lady <i>Gripe</i>; and having informed her @@ -1496,7 +1418,7 @@ were surprized by the Guards, and taken. Upon examining these Wretches, one of which turned Evidence, both Sir <i>William</i> and Sir <i>Timothy</i> found that they owed their Lives to the Discovery made by Little <i>Margery</i>, and the first took <span -class="newpage"><a name="page61" id="page61">[61]</a></span>great +class="newpage"><a id="page61">[61]</a></span>great Notice of her, and would no longer let her lie in a Barn; but Sir <i>Timothy</i> only said, that he was ashamed to owe his Life to the Daughter of one who was his Enemy; so true it is, <i>that a @@ -1506,20 +1428,19 @@ proud Man seldom forgives those he has injured</i>.</p> <br> <br> <br> -<center> +<div style="text-align: center"> <h3>C H A P. IX.</h3> <p><i>How Little</i> Margery <i>was made Principal of a Country College.</i></p> -</center> +</div> <p>Mrs. <i>Williams</i>, of whom I have given a particular Account in my <i>New Year's Gift</i>, and who kept a College for instructing little Gentlemen and Ladies in the Science of A, B, C, was at this Time very old and infirm, and wanted to decline that important Trust. This being told to Sir <i>William Dove</i>, who -lived <span class="newpage"><a name="page62" id= -"page62">[62]</a></span>in the Parish, he sent for Mrs. +lived <span class="newpage"><a id="page62">[62]</a></span>in the Parish, he sent for Mrs. <i>Williams</i>, and desired she would examine Little <i>Two-Shoes</i>, and see whether she was qualified for the Office.----This was done, and Mrs. <i>Williams</i> made the @@ -1534,8 +1455,7 @@ her.</p> Life; but more Happiness was in Store for her. G<small>OD</small> Almighty heaps up Blessings for all those who love him, and though for a Time he may suffer them to be poor and distressed, and hide -his good Purposes from human Sight, yet in <span class="newpage"><a -name="page63" id="page63">[63]</a></span>the End they are generally +his good Purposes from human Sight, yet in <span class="newpage"><a id="page63">[63]</a></span>the End they are generally crowned with Happiness here, and no one can doubt of their being so hereafter.</p> @@ -1563,7 +1483,7 @@ after published in the <i>Spectator</i>.</p> <p> III.</p> -<span class="newpage"><a name="page64" id="page64">[64]</a></span> +<span class="newpage"><a id="page64">[64]</a></span> <p> Tho' in the Paths of Death I tread,<br> With gloomy Horrors overspread,<br> @@ -1591,9 +1511,8 @@ set forth at large, according to Act of Parliament.</p> <br> <br> <br> -<hr width="80%"> -<center><span class="newpage"><a name="page65" id= -"page65">[65]</a></span> +<hr style="width: 80%;"> +<div style="text-align: center"><span class="newpage"><a id="page65">[65]</a></span> <h3>The Renowned</h3> @@ -1604,20 +1523,20 @@ set forth at large, according to Act of Parliament.</p> <h2>Mrs. M<small>ARGERY</small> T<small>WO</small>-S<small>HOES</small>.</h2> -<hr width="80%"> +<hr style="width: 80%;"> <b>P A R T II.</b><br> -<hr width="80%"> +<hr style="width: 80%;"> <p>I<small> N T R O D U C T I O N.</small></p> -</center> +</div> <p>In the first Part of this Work, the young Student has read, and I hope with Pleasure and Improvement, the History of this Lady, while she was known and distinguished by the Name of <i>Little Two-Shoes</i>; we are now come to a Period of her Life when that Name was discarded, and a more eminent one bestowed upon her, <span -class="newpage"><a name="page66" id="page66">[66]</a></span>I mean +class="newpage"><a id="page66">[66]</a></span>I mean that of Mrs. <i>Margery Two-Shoes</i>: For as she was now President of the A, B, C College, it became necessary to exalt her in Title as well as in Place.</p> @@ -1634,14 +1553,14 @@ good, or were soon made so by her good Management.</p> <br> <br> <br> -<span class="newpage"><a name="page67" id="page67">[67]</a></span> +<span class="newpage"><a id="page67">[67]</a></span> -<center> +<div style="text-align: center"> <h3>C H A P. I.</h3> <p><i>Of her School, her Ushers, or Assistants, and her Manner of Teaching.</i></p> -</center> +</div> <p>We have already informed the Reader, that the School where she taught, was that which was before kept by Mrs. <i>Williams</i>, @@ -1653,7 +1572,7 @@ fetch a Letter, or to spell a Word, when it came to their Turn; which not only kept them in Health, but fixed the Letters and Points firmly in their Minds.</p> -<span class="newpage"><a name="page68" id="page68">[68]</a></span> +<span class="newpage"><a id="page68">[68]</a></span> <p>She had the following Assistants or Ushers to help her, and I will tell you how she came by them. Mrs. <i>Margery</i>, you must @@ -1667,8 +1586,7 @@ among us; so that they are our fellow Tenants of the Globe. How then can People dare to torture and wantonly destroy G<small>OD</small> Almighty's Creatures? They as well as you are capable of feeling Pain, and of receiving Pleasure, and how can -you, who want to be made <span class="newpage"><a name="page69" id= -"page69">[69]</a></span>happy yourself, delight in making your +you, who want to be made <span class="newpage"><a id="page69">[69]</a></span>happy yourself, delight in making your fellow Creatures miserable? Do you think the poor Birds, whose Nest and young ones that wicked Boy <i>Dick Wilson</i> ran away with Yesterday, do not feel as much Pain, as your Father and Mother @@ -1681,33 +1599,31 @@ would never suffer any one to come to her School who did so.</p> <p>One Day, as she was going through the next Village, she met with some wicked Boys who had got a young Raven, which they were going to throw at, she wanted to get the poor Creature out of their cruel -Hands,<span class="newpage"><a name="page70" id= -"page70">[70]</a></span> and therefore gave them a Penny for him, +Hands,<span class="newpage"><a id="page70">[70]</a></span> and therefore gave them a Penny for him, and brought him home. She called his Name <i>Ralph</i>, and a fine Bird he is. Do look at him and remember what <i>Solomon</i> says, <i>The Eye that despiseth his Father, and regardeth not the Distress of his Mother, the Ravens of the Valley shall peck it out, and the young Eagles eat it.</i> Now this Bird she taught to speak, to spell and to read; and as he was particularly fond of <span -class="newpage"><a name="page71" id="page71">[71]</a></span>playing +class="newpage"><a id="page71">[71]</a></span>playing with the large Letters, the Children used to call this <i>Ralph</i>'s Alphabet.</p> -<center>A B C D +<div style="text-align: center">A B C D E F G H I J K L M<br> N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z.<br> <br> -</center> +</div> <p>He always sat at her Elbow, as you see in the first Picture, and when any of the Children were wrong, she used to call out, <i>Put them right Ralph</i>.</p> -<center><img src="images/image19.png" width="357" height="276" alt= -"Ralph the Raven" border="0"></center> +<div style="text-align: center"><img src="images/image19.png" alt= "Ralph the Raven" style="width: 357px; height: 276px; border: none"></div> <p>Some Days after she had met with the Raven, as she was walking in the Fields, she saw some naughty Boys, who had taken a Pidgeon, @@ -1716,44 +1632,42 @@ back again when they pleased; and by this Means they tortured the poor Animal with the Hopes of Liberty and repeated Disappointment. This Pidgeon she also bought, and taught him how to spell and read, though not to talk, and he performed all those <span class= -"newpage"><a name="page72" id="page72">[72]</a></span>extraordinary +"newpage"><a id="page72">[72]</a></span>extraordinary Things which are recorded of the famous Bird, that was some Time since advertised in the <i>Haymarket</i>, and visited by most of the great People in the Kingdom. This Pidgeon was a very pretty Fellow, and she called him <i>Tom</i>. See here he is.</p> -<center><img src="images/image20.png" width="360" height="276" alt= -"Tom the Pidgeon" border="0"></center> +<div style="text-align: center"><img src="images/image20.png" alt= "Tom the Pidgeon" style="width: 360px; height: 276px; border: none"></div> <p>And as the Raven <i>Ralph</i> was fond of the large Letters, <i>Tom</i> the Pidgeon took Care of the small ones, of which he composed this Alphabet.</p> -<span class="newpage"><a name="page73" id="page73">[73]</a></span> +<span class="newpage"><a id="page73">[73]</a></span> -<center>a b c d +<div style="text-align: center">a b c d e f g h i j k l m<br> n o p q r s t u v w x y z.<br> <br> -</center> +</div> <p>The Neighbours knowing that Mrs. <i>Two Shoes</i> was very good, as to be sure nobody was better, made her a Present of a little Sky-lark, and a fine Bird he is.</p> -<center><img src="images/image21.png" width="357" height="284" alt= -"Sky-lark" border="0"></center> +<div style="text-align: center"><img src="images/image21.png" alt= "Sky-lark" style="width: 357px; height: 284px; border: none"></div> -<span class="newpage"><a name="page74" id="page74">[74]</a></span> +<span class="newpage"><a id="page74">[74]</a></span> <p>Now as many People, even at that Time had learned to lie in Bed long in the Morning, she thought the Lark might be of Use to her and her Pupils, and tell them when to get up.</p> -<p><i>For be that is fond of his Bed, and lays 'till Noon, lives +<p><i>For he that is fond of his Bed, and lays 'till Noon, lives but half his Days, the rest being lost in Sleep, which is a Kind of Death</i>.</p> @@ -1763,7 +1677,7 @@ home with her to play with the Children, and teach them when to go to Bed; for it was a Rule with the wise Men of that Age (and a very good one, let me tell you) to</p> -<span class="newpage"><a name="page75" id="page75">[75]</a></span> +<span class="newpage"><a id="page75">[75]</a></span> <p><i> Rise with the Lark, and lie down with the Lamb.</i></p> @@ -1771,13 +1685,11 @@ Lamb.</i></p> <p>This Lamb she called <i>Will</i>, and a pretty Fellow he is; do, look at him.</p> -<center><img src="images/image22.png" width="368" height="297" alt= -"Will the Lamb" border="0"></center> +<div style="text-align: center"><img src="images/image22.png" alt= "Will the Lamb" style="width: 368px; height: 297px; border: none"></div> <p>No sooner was <i>Tippy</i> the Lark and <i>Will</i> the Ba-lamb brought into the School, but that sensible Rogue <i>Ralph</i>, the -Raven, composed the <span class="newpage"><a name="page76" id= -"page76">[76]</a></span>following Verse, which every little good +Raven, composed the <span class="newpage"><a id="page76">[76]</a></span>following Verse, which every little good Boy and Girl should get by Heart.</p> <p><i> Early to Bed, and early to rise;<br> @@ -1793,10 +1705,9 @@ People who have Routs and Rackets.</p> little Dog <i>Jumper</i>, and a pretty Dog he is. Pray, look at him.</p> -<span class="newpage"><a name="page77" id="page77">[77]</a></span> +<span class="newpage"><a id="page77">[77]</a></span> -<center><img src="images/image23.png" width="339" height="287" alt= -"Jumper the Dog" border="0"></center> +<div style="text-align: center"><img src="images/image23.png" alt= "Jumper the Dog" style="width: 339px; height: 287px; border: none"></div> <p><i>Jumper, Jumper, Jumper!</i> He is always in a good Humour, and playing and jumping about, and therefore he was called @@ -1806,7 +1717,7 @@ College, for he would let nobody go out, or any one come in, without the Leave of his Mistress. See how he sits, a saucy Rogue.</p> -<span class="newpage"><a name="page78" id="page78">[78]</a></span> +<span class="newpage"><a id="page78">[78]</a></span> <p><i>Billy</i> the Ba-lamb was a chearful Fellow, and all the Children were fond of him, wherefore Mrs. <i>Two-Shoes</i> made it @@ -1819,20 +1730,19 @@ he trudges along.</p> <br> <br> <br> -<center> +<div style="text-align: center"> <h3>C H A P. II.</h3> <p><i>A Scene of Distress in the School</i>.</p> -</center> +</div> -<img src="images/image24.png" width="277" height="218" alt= -"the Pidgeon rode on the his head" border="0" align="left"> +<img src="images/image24.png" alt= "the Pidgeon rode on the his head" class="fleft" style="width: 277px; height: 218px; border: none"> <p>It happened one Day, when Mrs. <i>Two-Shoes</i> was diverting the Children after Dinner, as she usually did with some innocent Games, or entertaining and instructive Stories, that a Man arrived with the melancholy News of <i>Sally Jones's</i> Father being <span -class="newpage"><a name="page79" id="page79">[79]</a></span>thrown +class="newpage"><a id="page79">[79]</a></span>thrown from his Horse, and thought past all Recovery; nay, the Messenger said, that he was seemingly dying, when he came away. Poor <i>Sally</i> was greatly distressed, as indeed were all the School, @@ -1845,15 +1755,14 @@ the Messenger was obliged to return; but before he went, Mrs. <i>Two-Shoes</i>, unknown to the Children, ordered <i>Tom</i> Pidgeon to go home with the Man, and bring a Letter to inform her how Mr. <i>Jones</i> did. They set out together, <span class= -"newpage"><a name="page80" id="page80">[80]</a></span>and the +"newpage"><a id="page80">[80]</a></span>and the Pidgeon rode on the Man's Head, (as you see here) for the Man was able to carry the Pidgeon, though the Pidgeon was not able to carry the Man, if he had, they would have been there much sooner, for <i>Tom</i> Pidgeon was <i>very good</i>, and never staid on an Errand.</p> -<p>Soon after the Man was gone the <span class="newpage"><a name= -"page81" id="page81">[81]</a></span>Pidgeon was lost, and the +<p>Soon after the Man was gone the <span class="newpage"><a id="page81">[81]</a></span>Pidgeon was lost, and the Concern the Children were under for Mr. <i>Jones</i> and little <i>Sally</i> was in some Measure diverted, and Part of their Attention turned after <i>Tom</i>, who was a great Favourite, and @@ -1866,12 +1775,12 @@ for <i>he is a Father to the Fatherless, and defendeth all those who put their Trust in him</i>. She then told them a Story, which I shall relate in as few Words as possible.</p> -<span class="newpage"><a name="page82" id="page82">[82]</a></span> +<span class="newpage"><a id="page82">[82]</a></span> -<center> +<div style="text-align: center"> <p><i>The History of Mr.</i> Lovewell, <i>Father to Lady</i> Lucy.</p> -</center> +</div> <p>Mr. <i>Lovewell</i> was born at <i>Bath</i>, and apprenticed to a laborious Trade in <i>London</i>, which being too hard for him, @@ -1882,8 +1791,7 @@ Pleasure, but in improving his Mind; and among other Acquirements, he made himself a complete Master of Accompts. His Sobriety, Honesty, and the Regard he paid to his Master's Interest, greatly recommended him in the whole Family, and he had several Offices of -Trust committed to his Charge, in which he <span class="newpage"><a -name="page83" id="page83">[83]</a></span>acquitted himself so well, +Trust committed to his Charge, in which he <span class="newpage"><a id="page83">[83]</a></span>acquitted himself so well, that the Merchant removed him from the Stable into the Counting-house.</p> @@ -1899,7 +1807,7 @@ much our Interest and our Duty.</p> <p>After some Years the Merchant died, and left Mr. <i>Lovewell</i> possessed of many fine Ships at Sea, and much Money, and he was happy in a Wife, who had brought him a Son and two <span class= -"newpage"><a name="page84" id="page84">[84]</a></span>Daughters, +"newpage"><a id="page84">[84]</a></span>Daughters, all dutiful and obedient. The Treasures and good Things, however, of this Life are so uncertain, that a Man can never be happy, unless he lays the Foundation for it in his own Mind. So true is @@ -1913,8 +1821,7 @@ customary among Merchants; when, unfortunately for him, four of them richly laden were lost at Sea. This he supported with becoming Resolution; but the next Mail brought him Advice, that nine others were taken by the <i>French</i>, with whom we were then at War; and -this, <span class="newpage"><a name="page85" id= -"page85">[85]</a></span>together with the Failure of three foreign +this, <span class="newpage"><a id="page85">[85]</a></span>together with the Failure of three foreign Merchants whom he had trusted, compleated his Ruin. He was then obliged to call his Creditors together, who took his Effects, and being angry with him for the imprudent Step of not insuring his @@ -1928,21 +1835,19 @@ Creditors, both he and his Family bore with Christian Fortitude; but other Calamities fell upon him, which he felt more sensibly.</p> -<p>In his Distress, one of his <span class="newpage"><a name= -"page86" id="page86">[86]</a></span>Relations, who lived at +<p>In his Distress, one of his <span class="newpage"><a id="page86">[86]</a></span>Relations, who lived at <i>Florence</i>, offered to take his Son; and another, who lived at <i>Barbadoes</i>, sent for one of his Daughters. The Ship which his Son sailed in was cast away, and all the Crew supposed to be lost; and the Ship, in which his Daughter went a Passenger, was taken by -Pyrates, and one Post brought the miserable Father an Account of +Pirates, and one Post brought the miserable Father an Account of the Loss of his two Children. This was the severest Stroke of all: It made him compleatly wretched, and he knew it must have a dreadful Effect on his Wife and Daughter; he therefore endeavoured to conceal it from them. But the perpetual Anxiety he was in, together with the Loss of his Appetite and Want of Rest, soon alarmed his Wife. She found something was labouring in his Breast, -which was concealed from her; and one <span class="newpage"><a -name="page87" id="page87">[87]</a></span>Night being disturbed in a +which was concealed from her; and one <span class="newpage"><a id="page87">[87]</a></span>Night being disturbed in a Dream, with what was ever in his Thoughts, and calling out upon his dear Children; she awoke him, and insisted upon knowing the Cause of his Inquietude. <i>Nothing, my Dear, nothing,</i> says he, @@ -1954,8 +1859,7 @@ found the fatal Account. In the Height of her Distractions, she flew to her Daughter's Room, and waking her with her Shrieks, put the Letters into her Hands. The young Lady, unable to support this Load of Misery, fell into a Fit, from which it was thought she -never could have been recovered. <span class="newpage"><a name= -"page88" id="page88">[88]</a></span>However, at last she revived; +never could have been recovered. <span class="newpage"><a id="page88">[88]</a></span>However, at last she revived; but the Shock was so great, that it entirely deprived her of her Speech.</p> @@ -1969,8 +1873,7 @@ and knitting Work, to help to furnish the Means of Subsistence; which however was so precarious and uncertain, that they often, for many Weeks together, lived on nothing but Cabbage and Bread boiled in Water. But G<small>OD</small> never forsaketh the Righteous, nor -suffereth those to <span class="newpage"><a name="page89" id= -"page89">[89]</a></span>perish who put their Trust in him. At this +suffereth those to <span class="newpage"><a id="page89">[89]</a></span>perish who put their Trust in him. At this Time a Lady, who was just come to England, sent to take a pleasant Seat ready furnished in that Neighbourhood, and the Person who was employed for the Purpose, was ordered to deliver a Bank Note of an @@ -1982,20 +1885,16 @@ starving, was a sweet and seasonable Relief, and they were all sollicitous to know their Benefactress, but of that the Messenger himself was too ignorant to inform them. However, she came down sooner than was expected, and with Tears embraced them again and -<span class="newpage"><a name="page90" id= -"page90">[90]</a></span>again: After which she told the Father and +<span class="newpage"><a id="page90">[90]</a></span>again: After which she told the Father and Mother she had heard from their Daughter, who was her Acquaintance, and that she was well and on her Return to England. This was the agreeable Subject of their Conversation till after Dinner, when drinking their Healths, she again with Tears saluted them, and falling upon her Knees asked their Blessings.</p> -<center><img src="images/image25.png" width="356" height="273" alt= -"falling upon her Knees and asked their blessings" border= -"0"></center> +<div style="text-align: center"><img src="images/image25.png" alt= "falling upon her Knees and asked their blessings" style="width: 356px; height: 273px"></div> -<p>Tis impossible to express the mutual <span class="newpage"><a -name="page91" id="page91">[91]</a></span>Joy which this occasioned. +<p>'Tis impossible to express the mutual <span class="newpage"><a id="page91">[91]</a></span>Joy which this occasioned. Their Conversation was made up of the most endearing Expressions, intermingled with Tears and Caresses. Their Torrent of Joy, however, was for a Moment interrupted, by a Chariot which stopped @@ -2003,9 +1902,7 @@ at the Gate, and which brought as they thought a very unseasonable Visitor, and therefore she sent to be excused from seeing Company.</p> -<img src="images/image26.png" width="363" height="278" alt= -"Chariot" border="0" align="left"> <span class="newpage"><a name= -"page92" id="page92">[92]</a></span> +<img src="images/image26.png" alt= "Chariot" class="fleft" style="width: 363px; height: 278px; border: none"> <span class="newpage"><a id="page92">[92]</a></span> <p>But this had no Effect, for a Gentleman richly dressed jumped out of the Chariot, and pursuing the Servant into the Parlour @@ -2019,8 +1916,7 @@ Piety will rejoice at the Event, and those who have a proper Idea of the Goodness of G<small>OD</small>, and his gracious Providence, will from this, as well as other Instances of his Goodness and Mercy, glorify his holy Name, and magnify his Wisdom and Power, who -is a <span class="newpage"><a name="page93" id= -"page93">[93]</a></span>Shield to the Righteous, and defendeth all +is a <span class="newpage"><a id="page93">[93]</a></span>Shield to the Righteous, and defendeth all those who put their Trust in him.</p> <p>As you, my dear Children, may be sollicitous to know how this @@ -2033,8 +1929,7 @@ rob her of her Chastity; but finding her Inflexible, and determined to die rather than to submit, some of them behaved to her in a very cruel Manner; but others, who had more Honour and Generosity, became her Defenders; upon which a Quarrel arose between them, and -the Captain, who was the worst <span class="newpage"><a name= -"page94" id="page94">[94]</a></span>of the Gang, being killed, the +the Captain, who was the worst <span class="newpage"><a id="page94">[94]</a></span>of the Gang, being killed, the rest of the Crew carried the Ship into a Port of the <i>Manilla</i> Islands, belonging to the <i>Spaniards</i>; where, when her Story was known, she was treated with great Respect, and courted by a @@ -2048,20 +1943,17 @@ for G<small>OD</small> Almighty is All-powerful and can deliver us at any Time. Remember <i>Job</i>, but I think you have not read so far, take the Bible, <i>Billy Jones</i>, and read the History of that good and patient Man. At this Instant something was heard to -<span class="newpage"><a name="page95" id= -"page95">[95]</a></span>flap at the Window, <i>Wow, wow, wow</i>, +<span class="newpage"><a id="page95">[95]</a></span>flap at the Window, <i>Wow, wow, wow</i>, says Jumper, and attempted to leap up and open the Door, at which the Children were surprized; but Mrs. <i>Margery</i> knowing what it was, opened the Casement, as <i>Noah</i> did the Window of the Ark, and drew in <i>Tom</i> Pidgeon with a Letter, and see here he is.</p> -<center><img src="images/image27.png" width="353" height="276" alt= -"Tom Pidgeon with a Letter" border="0"></center> +<div style="text-align: center"><img src="images/image27.png" alt= "Tom Pidgeon with a Letter" style="width: 353px; height: 276px; border: none"></div> <p>As soon as he was placed on the Table, he walked up to little -<i>Sally</i>, <span class="newpage"><a name="page96" id= -"page96">[96]</a></span>and dropping the Letter, cried, <i>Co, Co, +<i>Sally</i>, <span class="newpage"><a id="page96">[96]</a></span>and dropping the Letter, cried, <i>Co, Co, Coo</i>, as much as to say, <i>there read it</i>. Now this poor Pidgeon had travelled fifty Miles in about an Hour, to bring <i>Sally</i> this Letter, and who would destroy such pretty @@ -2076,7 +1968,7 @@ forget to praise the Lord for this his great Goodness and Mercy to us--What a sad Thing it would have been if your Father had died, and left both you and me, and little <i>Tommy</i> in Distress, and without a Friend: Your Father sends his Blessing <span class= -"newpage"><a name="page97" id="page97">[97]</a></span>with mine--Be +"newpage"><a id="page97">[97]</a></span>with mine--Be good, my dear Child, and G<small>OD</small> Almighty will also bless you, whose Blessing is above all Things.<br> <br> @@ -2093,18 +1985,17 @@ A</small> J <small>O N E S</small>.</p> <br> <br> <br> -<center> +<div style="text-align: center"> <h3>C H A P. III.</h3> <p><i>Of the amazing Sagacity and Instincts of a little Dog</i>.</p> -</center> +</div> <p>Soon after this, a dreadful Accident happened in the School. It was on a <i>Thursday</i> Morning, I very well remember, when the Children having learned their Lessons soon, she had given them -Leave to <span class="newpage"><a name="page98" id= -"page98">[98]</a></span>play, and they were all running about the +Leave to <span class="newpage"><a id="page98">[98]</a></span>play, and they were all running about the School, and diverting themselves with the Birds and the Lamb; at this Time the Dog, all of a sudden, laid hold of his Mistress's Apron, and endeavoured to pull her out of the School. She was at @@ -2116,8 +2007,7 @@ been out five Minutes, before the Top of the House fell in. What a miraculous Deliverance was here! How gracious! How good was G<small>OD</small> Almighty, to save all these Children from Destruction, and to make Use of such an Instrument, as a little -sagacious Animal to accomplish <span class="newpage"><a name= -"page99" id="page99">[99]</a></span>his Divine Will. I should have +sagacious Animal to accomplish <span class="newpage"><a id="page99">[99]</a></span>his Divine Will. I should have observed, that as soon as they were all in the Garden, the Dog came leaping round them to express his Joy, and when the House was fallen, laid himself down quietly by his Mistress.</p> @@ -2130,14 +2020,13 @@ Satisfaction to find them all safe, and upon their Knees, with their Mistress, giving G<small>OD</small> thanks for their happy Deliverance.</p> -<center> +<div style="text-align: center"> <p>A <small>D V I C E</small> <i>from the</i> M <small>A N</small> <i>in the</i> M <small>O O N</small>.</p> -</center> +</div> <p><i>Jumper, Jumper, Jumper</i>, what a pretty Dog he is, and how -sensible? <span class="newpage"><a name="page100" id= -"page100">[100]</a></span>Had Mankind half the Sagacity of +sensible? <span class="newpage"><a id="page100">[100]</a></span>Had Mankind half the Sagacity of <i>Jumper</i>, they would guard against Accidents of this Sort, by having a public Survey, occasionally made of all the Houses in every Parish (especially of those, which are old and decayed) and @@ -2149,8 +2038,7 @@ and an hundred more are to tumble, before this Time twelve Months; so Friends, take Care of yourselves, and tell the Legislature, they ought to take Care for you. How can you be so careless? Most of your Evils arise from Carelesness and Extravagance, and yet you -excuse yourselves, and lay the Fault <span class="newpage"><a name= -"page101" id="page101">[101]</a></span>upon Fortune. Fortune is a +excuse yourselves, and lay the Fault <span class="newpage"><a id="page101">[101]</a></span>upon Fortune. Fortune is a Fool, and you are a Blockhead, if you put it in her Power to play Tricks with you.</p> @@ -2166,22 +2054,20 @@ N</small> <i>in the</i> M <small>O O N</small>.</p> should have more Sense than you, or your Father, or your Grandfather.</p> -<img src="images/image28.png" width="275" height="227" alt= -"Nightingale" border="0" align="right"> +<img src="images/image28.png" alt= "Nightingale" class="fright" style="width: 275px; height: 227px; border: none"> <p>Though G<small>OD</small> Almighty has made Man the Lord of the Creation, and endowed him with Reason, yet in many Respects, he has been altogether as bountiful to other Creatures of his forming. Some of the Senses of other Animals are more acute than ours, as we find by daily Experience. You know this little Bird, <span class= -"newpage"><a name="page102" id="page102">[102]</a></span><i>sweet +"newpage"><a id="page102">[102]</a></span><i>sweet Jug, Jug, Jug</i>, 'tis a Nightingale. This little Creature, after she has entertained us with her Songs all the Spring, and bred up her little ones, flies into a foreign Country, and finds her Way over the Great Sea, without any of the Instruments and Helps which Men are obliged to make Use of for that Purpose. Was you as wise as -the Nightingale, <span class="newpage"><a name="page103" id= -"page103">[103]</a></span>you might make all the Sailors happy, and +the Nightingale, <span class="newpage"><a id="page103">[103]</a></span>you might make all the Sailors happy, and have twenty thousand Pounds for teaching them the Longitude.</p> <p>You would not think <i>Ralph</i> the Raven half so wise and so @@ -2198,8 +2084,7 @@ the Ravens brought him Bread and Flesh in the Morning, and Bread and Flesh in the Evening, and he drank of the Brook,</i> Kings, B.I.C. 17.</p> -<p>And the pretty Pidgeon when the <span class="newpage"><a name= -"page104" id="page104">[104]</a></span>World was drowned, and he +<p>And the pretty Pidgeon when the <span class="newpage"><a id="page104">[104]</a></span>World was drowned, and he was confined with <i>Noah</i> in the Ark, was sent forth by him to see whether the Waters were abated, <i>And he sent forth a Dove from him, to see if the Waters were abated from off the Face of the @@ -2212,8 +2097,7 @@ ought to be tender and good to them, and not beat them about, and kill them, and take away their young ones, as many wicked Boys do. Does not the Horse and the Ass carry you and your burthens; don't the Ox plough your Ground, the Cow give you Milk, the Sheep cloath -your Back, <span class="newpage"><a name="page105" id= -"page105">[105]</a></span>the Dog watch your House, the Goose find +your Back, <span class="newpage"><a id="page105">[105]</a></span>the Dog watch your House, the Goose find you in Quills to write with, the Hen bring Eggs for your Custards and Puddings, and the Cock call you up in the Morning, when you are lazy, and like to hurt yourselves by laying too long in Bed? If so, @@ -2228,8 +2112,7 @@ and good.</p> <i>Margery</i>; for she not only lost all her Books, but was destitute of a Place to teach in; but Sir William <i>Dove</i>, being informed of this, ordered the House to be built at his own -Expence, and <span class="newpage"><a name="page106" id= -"page106">[106]</a></span>'till that could be done, Farmer +Expence, and <span class="newpage"><a id="page106">[106]</a></span>'till that could be done, Farmer <i>Grove</i> was so kind, as to let her have his large Hall to teach in.</p> @@ -2238,11 +2121,9 @@ the Door of a Boy sliding on the Ice, and under it were these Lines, written by Mrs. <i>Two-Shoes</i>, and engraved at her Expence.<br> <br> -<center><img src="images/image29.png" width="396" height="300" alt= -"Boy sliding on the Ice" border="0"></center> +<div style="text-align: center"><img src="images/image29.png" alt= "Boy sliding on the Ice" style="width: 396px; height: 300px; border: none"></div> -<span class="newpage"><a name="page107" id= -"page107">[107]</a></span> +<span class="newpage"><a id="page107">[107]</a></span> <p> On S <small>I N</small>. A S <small>I M I L E</small>.</p> @@ -2271,15 +2152,14 @@ I L E</small>.</p> <br> <br> <br> -<span class="newpage"><a name="page108" id= -"page108">[108]</a></span> +<span class="newpage"><a id="page108">[108]</a></span> -<center> +<div style="text-align: center"> <h3>C H A P. IV.</h3> <p><i>What happened at Farmer Grove's; and how<br> she gratified him for the Use of his Room</i>.</p> -</center> +</div> <p>While at Mr. <i>Grove's</i>, which was in the Heart of the Village, she not only taught the Children in the Day Time, but the @@ -2288,8 +2168,7 @@ Evening; and it was a constant Practice before they went away, to make them all go to Prayers, and sing Psalms. By this Means, the People grew extremely regular, his Servants were always at Home, instead of being at the Ale-house, and he had more Work done than -ever. This <span class="newpage"><a name="page109" id= -"page109">[109]</a></span>gave not only Mr. <i>Grove</i>, but all +ever. This <span class="newpage"><a id="page109">[109]</a></span>gave not only Mr. <i>Grove</i>, but all the Neighbours, an high Opinion of her good Sense and prudent Behaviour: And she was so much esteemed, that most of the Differences in the Parish were left to her Decision; and if a Man @@ -2301,20 +2180,19 @@ These were one Day brought by the Neighbours for <i>Margery</i> to talk to them, when they fairly quarrelled before her, and were going to Blows; but she stepping between them, thus addressed the Husband; <i>John</i>, says she, you are a Man, and ought to have -more Sense than to fly <span class="newpage"><a name="page110" id= -"page110">[110]</a></span>in a Passion, at every Word that is said +more Sense than to fly <span class="newpage"><a id="page110">[110]</a></span>in a Passion, at every Word that is said amiss by your Wife; and <i>Martha</i>, says she, you ought to know your Duty better, than to say any Thing to aggravate your Husband's Resentment. These frequent Quarrels, arise from the Indulgence of your violent Passions; for I know, you both love one another, notwithstanding what has passed between you. Now, pray tell me <i>John</i>, and tell me <i>Martha</i>, when you have had a Quarrel -the over Night, are you not both sorry for it the next Day? They +the other Night, are you not both sorry for it the next Day? They both declared that they were: Why then, says she, I'll tell you how to prevent this for the future, if you will both promise to take my Advice. They both promised her. You know, says she, that a small Spark will set Fire to Tinder, and that Tinder <span class= -"newpage"><a name="page111" id="page111">[111]</a></span>properly +"newpage"><a id="page111">[111]</a></span>properly placed will fire a House; an angry Word is with you as that Spark, for you are both as touchy as Tinder, and very often make your own House too hot to hold you. To prevent this, therefore, and to live @@ -2328,8 +2206,7 @@ Rule.</p> <p>This is the best Recipe that was ever given for a married Couple to live in Peace: Though <i>John</i> and his Wife frequently attempted to quarrel afterwards, they never could get their -Passions to any considerable Height, <span class="newpage"><a name= -"page112" id="page112">[112]</a></span>for there was something so +Passions to any considerable Height, <span class="newpage"><a id="page112">[112]</a></span>for there was something so droll in thus carrying on the Dispute, that before they got to the End of the Argument, they saw the Absurdity of it, laughed, kissed, and were Friends.</p> @@ -2343,7 +2220,7 @@ they were very fond of, and which was just dead. Mrs. Instructions from every Accident, took this Opportunity of reading them a Lecture on the Uncertainty of Life, and the Necessity of being always prepared for Death. You should <span class= -"newpage"><a name="page113" id="page113">[113]</a></span>get up in +"newpage"><a id="page113">[113]</a></span>get up in the Morning, says she, and to conduct yourselves, as if that Day was to be your last, and lie down at Night, as if you never expected to see this World any more. This may be done, says she, @@ -2358,14 +2235,13 @@ Wicked.</p> Dormouse, and desired one of them to write his Epitaph, and here it is.</p> -<span class="newpage"><a name="page114" id= -"page114">[114]</a></span> +<span class="newpage"><a id="page114">[114]</a></span> -<center> +<div style="text-align: center"> <p><i>Epitaph on a</i> D O R M O U S E, <i>really<br> written by a little</i> BOY.</p> -</center> +</div> <p> I.</p> @@ -2391,18 +2267,16 @@ written by a little</i> BOY.</p> <br> <br> <br> -<span class="newpage"><a name="page115" id= -"page115">[115]</a></span> +<span class="newpage"><a id="page115">[115]</a></span> -<center> +<div style="text-align: center"> <h3>C H A P. V.</h3> <p><i>The whole History of the Considering Cap, set forth<br> at large for the Benefit of all whom it may concern</i>.</p> -</center> +</div> -<img src="images/image30.png" width="292" height="230" alt= -"Considering Cap" border="0" align="left"> +<img src="images/image30.png" alt= "Considering Cap" class="fleft" style="width: 292px; height: 230px; border: none"> <p>The great Reputation Mrs. <i>Margery</i> acquired by composing Differences in Families, and especially, between Man and Wife, @@ -2416,8 +2290,7 @@ W R O N G </small> ; on the second, I <small>T I S F I F T Y T O O N E B U T Y O U -A R E ;</small> <span class="newpage"><a name= -"page116" id="page116">[116]</a></span>and on the third, +A R E ;</small> <span class="newpage"><a id="page116">[116]</a></span>and on the third, I'<small> L L C O N S I D E R O F I T </small> . The other Parts on the @@ -2426,7 +2299,7 @@ Writings of the old <i>Egyptians</i>; but within Side there was a Direction for its Use, of the utmost Consequence; for it strictly enjoined the Possessor to put on the Cap, whenever he found his Passions begin to grow turbulent, and not to <span class= -"newpage"><a name="page117" id="page117">[117]</a></span>deliver a +"newpage"><a id="page117">[117]</a></span>deliver a Word whilst it was on, but with great Coolness and Moderation. As this Cap was an universal Cure for Wrong-headedness, and prevented numberless Disputes and Quarrels, it greatly hurt the Trade of the @@ -2438,8 +2311,7 @@ Masters and Servants; by young Folks, who were intent on Matrimony, by Judges, Jurymen, and even Physicians and Divines; nay, if we may believe History, the Legislators of the Land did not disdain the Use of them; and we are told, that when any important Debate arose, -<i>Cap, was the Word</i>, and <span class="newpage"><a name= -"page118" id="page118">[118]</a></span>each House looked like a +<i>Cap, was the Word</i>, and <span class="newpage"><a id="page118">[118]</a></span>each House looked like a grand Synod of <i>Egyptian</i> Priests. Nor was this Cap of less Use to Partners in Trade, for with these, as well as with Husband and Wife, if one was out of Humour, the other threw him the Cap, @@ -2453,24 +2325,21 @@ People of Sense never went without them; and it was common in the Country, when a Booby made his Appearance, and talked Nonsense, to say, <i>he had no Cap in his Pocket</i>.</p> -<span class="newpage"><a name="page119" id= -"page119">[119]</a></span> +<span class="newpage"><a id="page119">[119]</a></span> -<center><img src="images/image31.png" width="372" height="290" alt= -"Friar Bacon" border="0"></center> +<div style="text-align: center"><img src="images/image31.png" alt= "Friar Bacon" style="width: 372px; height: 290px; border: none"></div> -<center> +<div style="text-align: center"> <p><i>Advice from</i> F<small> R I A R</small> B<small> A C O N</small>.</p> -</center> +</div> <p>What was <i>Fortunatus</i> 's Wishing Cap, when compared to this? That Cap, is said to have conveyed People instantly from one Place to another; but, as the Change of Place does not change the Temper and Disposition of the Mind, little Benefit can be expected -from it; nor indeed is much <span class="newpage"><a name="page120" -id="page120">[120]</a></span>to be hoped from his famous Purse: +from it; nor indeed is much <span class="newpage"><a id="page120">[120]</a></span>to be hoped from his famous Purse: That Purse, it is said, was never empty, and such a Purse, may be sometimes convenient; but as Money will not purchase Peace, it is not necessary for a Man to encumber himself with a great deal of @@ -2492,31 +2361,29 @@ B<small> A C O N</small>.</p> <br> <br> <br> -<span class="newpage"><a name="page121" id= -"page121">[121]</a></span> +<span class="newpage"><a id="page121">[121]</a></span> -<center> +<div style="text-align: center"> <h3>C H A P. VI.</h3> <p><i>How Mrs.</i> MARGERY <i>was taken up for a Witch,<br> and what happened on that Occasion.</i></p> -</center> +</div> <p>And so it is true? And they have taken up Mrs. <i>Margery</i> then, and accused her of being a Witch, only because she was wiser than some of her Neighbours! Mercy upon me! People stuff Children's -Heads with Stories of Ghosts, Faries, Witches, and such Nonsense +Heads with Stories of Ghosts, Fairies, Witches, and such Nonsense when they are young, and so they continue Fools all their Days. The whole World ought to be made acquainted with her Case, and here it is at their Service.</p> -<center> +<div style="text-align: center"> <p><i>The Case of Mrs.</i> MARGERY.</p> -</center> +</div> <p>Mrs. <i>Margery</i>, as we have frequently observed, was always -doing Good, <span class="newpage"><a name="page122" id= -"page122">[122]</a></span>and thought she could never sufficiently +doing Good, <span class="newpage"><a id="page122">[122]</a></span>and thought she could never sufficiently gratify those who had done any Thing to serve her. These generous Sentiments, naturally led her to consult the Interest of Mr. <i>Grove</i>, and the rest of her Neighbours; and as most of their @@ -2527,20 +2394,17 @@ and prevent their Hay being spoiled. They all came to her for Advice, and by that Means got in their Hay without Damage, while most of that in the neighbouring Villages was spoiled.</p> -<img src="images/image32.png" width="278" height="223" alt= -"a Witch!" border="0" align="right"> +<img src="images/image32.png" alt= "a Witch!" class="fright" style="width: 278px; height: 223px; border: none"> <p>This made a great Noise in the Country, and so provoked were the People in the other Parishes, that they accused her of being a -Witch, and <span class="newpage"><a name="page123" id= -"page123">[123]</a></span>sent Gaffer <i>Goosecap</i>, a busy +Witch, and <span class="newpage"><a id="page123">[123]</a></span>sent Gaffer <i>Goosecap</i>, a busy Fellow in other People's Concerns, to find out Evidence against her. This Wiseacre happened to come to her School, when she was walking about with the Raven on one Shoulder, the Pidgeon on the other, the Lark on her Hand, and the Lamb and the Dog by her Side; which indeed made a droll Figure, and so surprized the that he -cried out, <span class="newpage"><a name="page124" id= -"page124">[124]</a></span>a Witch! a Witch! upon this she laughing, +cried out, <span class="newpage"><a id="page124">[124]</a></span>a Witch! a Witch! upon this she laughing, answered, a Conjurer! a Conjurer! and so they parted; but it did not end thus, for a Warrant was issued out against Mrs. <i>Margery</i>, and she was carried to a Meeting of the Justices, @@ -2553,8 +2417,7 @@ Character? <i>Who</i> can you bring against my Character, Sir, says she, there are People enough who would appear in my Defence, were it necessary; but I never supposed that any one here could be so weak, as to believe there was any such Thing as a Witch. If I am a -Witch, this is my <span class="newpage"><a name="page125" id= -"page125">[125]</a></span>Charm, and (laying a Barometer or Weather +Witch, this is my <span class="newpage"><a id="page125">[125]</a></span>Charm, and (laying a Barometer or Weather Glass on the Table) it is with this, says she, that I have taught my Neighbours to know the State of the Weather. All the Company laughed, and Sir <i>William Dove</i>, who was on the Bench, asked @@ -2568,7 +2431,7 @@ Story.</p> <p>There was in the West of <i>England</i> a poor industrious Woman, who laboured under the same evil Report, which this good Woman is accused of. Every Hog that died with the <span class= -"newpage"><a name="page126" id="page126">[126]</a></span>Murrain, +"newpage"><a id="page126">[126]</a></span>Murrain, every Cow that slipt her Calf, she was accountable for: If a Horse had the Staggers, she was supposed to be in his Head; and whenever the Wind blew a little harder than ordinary, <i>Goody Giles</i> was @@ -2581,8 +2444,7 @@ petitioned Mr. <i>Williams</i>, the Parson of the Parish, not to let her come to Church; and at last, even insisted upon it: But this he over-ruled, and allowed the poor old Woman a Nook in one of the Isles to herself, where she muttered over her Prayers in the -<span class="newpage"><a name="page127" id= -"page127">[127]</a></span>best Manner she could. The Parish, thus +<span class="newpage"><a id="page127">[127]</a></span>best Manner she could. The Parish, thus disconcerted and enraged, withdrew the small Pittance they allowed for her Support, and would have reduced her to the Necessity of starving, had she not been still assisted by the benevolent Mr. @@ -2598,8 +2460,7 @@ People are <i>void of common Sense</i>.</p> <p>Some Time after, a Brother of her's died in <i>London</i>, who, though he would not part with a Farthing while he lived, at his Death was obliged to leave her five thousand Pounds, that he could -not carry with him.<span class="newpage"><a name="page128" id= -"page128">[128]</a></span>----This altered the Face of <i>Jane</i> +not carry with him.<span class="newpage"><a id="page128">[128]</a></span>----This altered the Face of <i>Jane</i> 's Affairs prodigiously: She was no longer <i>Jane</i>, alias <i>Joan Giles</i>, the ugly old Witch, but Madam <i>Giles</i>; her old ragged Garb was exchanged for one that was new and genteel; her @@ -2613,7 +2474,7 @@ stupid</i>, before she can possibly pass for a Witch.</p> <p>'Twas a Saying of Mr. <i>Williams</i>, who would sometimes be jocose, and had the Art of making even Satire <span class= -"newpage"><a name="page129" id="page129">[129]</a></span>agreeable; +"newpage"><a id="page129">[129]</a></span>agreeable; that if ever <i>Jane</i> deserved the Character of a Witch, it was after this Money was left her; for that with her five thousand Pounds, she did more Acts of Charity and friendly Offices, than all @@ -2626,8 +2487,7 @@ Thing, but that all were the Effects of Folly and Ignorance, he gave the Court such an Account of Mrs. <i>Margery</i>, and her Virtue, good Sense, and prudent Behaviour, that the Gentlemen present were enamoured with her, and returned her public Thanks for -the great Service she had done the <span class="newpage"><a name= -"page130" id="page130">[130]</a></span>Country. One Gentleman in +the great Service she had done the <span class="newpage"><a id="page130">[130]</a></span>Country. One Gentleman in particular, I mean Sir <i>Charles Jones</i>, had conceived such an high Opinion of her, that he offered her a considerable Sum to take the Care of his Family, and the Education of his Daughter, which, @@ -2639,20 +2499,17 @@ after made her Proposals of Marriage. She was truly sensible of the Honour he intended her, but, though poor, she would not consent to be made a Lady, till he had effectually provided for his Daughter; for she told him, that Power was a dangerous Thing to be trusted -with, and that a good Man <span class="newpage"><a name="page131" -id="page131">[131]</a></span>or Woman would never throw themselves +with, and that a good Man <span class="newpage"><a id="page131">[131]</a></span>or Woman would never throw themselves into the Road of Temptation.</p> -<img src="images/image33.png" width="353" height="275" alt= -"the Neighbours came in Crouds to see the Wedding" border="0" -align="left"> +<img src="images/image33.png" alt= "the Neighbours came in Crouds to see the Wedding" class="fleft" style="width: 353px; height: 275px; border: none"> <p>All Things being settled, and the Day fixed, the Neighbours came in Crouds to see the Wedding; for they were all glad, that one who had been such a good little Girl, and was become such a virtuous and good Woman, was going to be made a Lady; but just as the Clergyman had opened his Book, a Gentleman richly dressed <span -class="newpage"><a name="page132" id="page132">[132]</a></span>ran +class="newpage"><a id="page132">[132]</a></span>ran into the Church, and cry'd, Stop! stop! This greatly alarmed the Congregation, particularly the intended Bride and Bridegroom, whom he first accosted, and desired to speak with them apart. After they @@ -2665,8 +2522,7 @@ so richly dressed and bedizened with Lace, was that identical little Boy, whom you before saw in the Sailor's Habit; in short, it was little <i>Tom Two Shoes</i>, Mrs. <i>Margery's</i> Brother, who was just come from beyond Sea, where he had made a large Fortune, -<span class="newpage"><a name="page133" id= -"page133">[133]</a></span>and hearing, as soon as he landed, of his +<span class="newpage"><a id="page133">[133]</a></span>and hearing, as soon as he landed, of his Sister's intended Wedding, had rode Post, to see that a proper Settlement was made on her; which he thought she was now intitled to, as he himself was both able and willing to give her an ample @@ -2682,15 +2538,14 @@ soon be published.</p> <br> <br> <br> -<span class="newpage"><a name="page134" id= -"page134">[134]</a></span> +<span class="newpage"><a id="page134">[134]</a></span> -<center> +<div style="text-align: center"> <h3>C H A P. VII. and Last.</h3> <p><i>The true Use of Riches.</i></p> -</center> +</div> <p>The Harmony and Affection that subsisted between this happy Couple, is inexpressible; but Time, which dissolves the closest @@ -2702,8 +2557,7 @@ Grief, tho' possessed of a large Fortune.</p> (for so we must now call her) ordered the Chappel to be fitted up, and allowed the Chaplain a considerable Sum out of her own private Purse, to visit the Sick, and say Prayers every Day to all the -People that could attend. <span class="newpage"><a name="page135" -id="page135">[135]</a></span>She also gave Mr. <i>Johnson</i> ten +People that could attend. <span class="newpage"><a id="page135">[135]</a></span>She also gave Mr. <i>Johnson</i> ten Guineas a Year, to preach a Sermon, annually, on the Necessity and Duties of the marriage State, and on the Decease of Sir <i>Charles</i>; she gave him ten more, to preach yearly on the @@ -2716,8 +2570,7 @@ before the Service, placed it on his Grave-stone; and a suitable Psalm was always sung by the Congregation.</p> <p>About this Time, she heard that Mr. <i>Smith</i> was oppressed -by Sir <span class="newpage"><a name="page136" id= -"page136">[136]</a></span>Timothy Gripe, the Justice, and his +by Sir <span class="newpage"><a id="page136">[136]</a></span>Timothy Gripe, the Justice, and his Friend <i>Graspall</i>, who endeavoured to deprive him of Part of his Tythes; upon which she, in Conjunction with her Brother, defended him, and the Cause was tried in <i>Westminster-hall</i>, @@ -2729,8 +2582,7 @@ Disposition, and this was followed by one yet more severe; for a Relation of his, who had an undoubted Right to the <i>Mouldwell</i> Estate, finding that it was possible to get the better at Law of a rich Man, laid Claim to it, brought his Action, and recovered the -whole Manor of <i>Mouldwell</i>, and being <span class="newpage"><a -name="page137" id="page137">[137]</a></span>afterwards inclined to +whole Manor of <i>Mouldwell</i>, and being <span class="newpage"><a id="page137">[137]</a></span>afterwards inclined to sell it, he, in Consideration of the Aid Lady <i>Margery</i> had lent him during his Distress, made her the first Offer, and she purchased the Whole, and threw it into different Farms, that the @@ -2747,8 +2599,7 @@ his Children might be treated with Care and Tenderness; <i>for they</i>, says she, <i>are no Ways accountable for the Actions of their Father</i>.</p> -<span class="newpage"><a name="page138" id= -"page138">[138]</a></span> +<span class="newpage"><a id="page138">[138]</a></span> <p>At her first coming into Power, she took Care to gratify her old Friends, especially Mr. and Mrs. <i>Smith</i>, whose Family she @@ -2762,8 +2613,7 @@ to induce her Tenants and Neighbours to enter into that happy State, she always gave the young Couple something towards House-keeping; and stood Godmother to all their Children, whom she had in Parties, every <i>Sunday</i> Evening, to teach them their -Catechism, and <span class="newpage"><a name="page139" id= -"page139">[139]</a></span>lecture them in Religion and Morality; +Catechism, and <span class="newpage"><a id="page139">[139]</a></span>lecture them in Religion and Morality; after which she treated them with a Supper, gave them such Books as they wanted, and then dispatched them with her Blessing. Nor did she forget them at her Death, but left each a Legacy, as will be @@ -2775,8 +2625,7 @@ planted yearly with Potatoes, for all the Poor of any Parish who would come and fetch them for the Use of their Families; but if any took them to sell they were deprived of that Privilege ever after. And these Roots were planted and raised from the Rent arising from -a Farm which she had <span class="newpage"><a name="page140" id= -"page140">[140]</a></span>assigned over for that purpose. In short, +a Farm which she had <span class="newpage"><a id="page140">[140]</a></span>assigned over for that purpose. In short, she was a Mother to the Poor, a Physician to the Sick, and a Friend to all who were in Distress. Her Life was the greatest Blessing, and her Death the greatest Calamity that ever was felt in the @@ -2794,18 +2643,17 @@ young Gentleman.</p> Repine no more, your Plaints forbear,<br> And all prepare to meet them there.</i></p> -<center> +<div style="text-align: center"> <h3>The E N D.</h3> -</center> +</div> <br> <br> <br> <br> -<span class="newpage"><a name="page141" id= -"page141">[141]</a></span> +<span class="newpage"><a id="page141">[141]</a></span> -<center> +<div style="text-align: center"> <h3>A P P E N D I X.</h3> @@ -2815,18 +2663,16 @@ D<small> R E A M </small> ; <i>or, the</i> I<small> N G E N U O U S</small> C<small> O N F E S S I O N</small> .</p> -</center> +</div> -<center><img src="images/image34.png" width="384" height="302" alt= -"Appendix" border="0"></center> +<div style="text-align: center"><img src="images/image34.png" alt= "Appendix" style="width: 384px; height: 302px; border: none"></div> <p>To shew the Depravity of human Nature, and how apt the Mind is to be misled by Trinkets and false Appearances, Mrs. <i>Two-Shoes</i> does acknowledge, that after she became rich, she had like to have been too fond of Money; for on seeing her Husband receive a very large Sum, her Heart went pit pat, pit pat, all the -<span class="newpage"><a name="page142" id= -"page142">[142]</a></span>Evening, and she began to think that +<span class="newpage"><a id="page142">[142]</a></span>Evening, and she began to think that Guineas were pretty Things. To suppress this Turbulence of Mind, which was a Symptom of approaching Avarice, she said her Prayers earlier than usual, and at Night had the following Dream; which I @@ -2843,8 +2689,7 @@ amazingly magnificent. Elated with this wonderful Gift, I rang hastily for my Maid to carry the joyful News to her Master, who, as I thought, was then walking in the Garden. <i>Sukey</i> came, but in the Extacy I was in, happening to touch her Hand, she became -instantly an immovable Statue. <span class="newpage"><a name= -"page143" id="page143">[143]</a></span>Go, said I, and call your +instantly an immovable Statue. <span class="newpage"><a id="page143">[143]</a></span>Go, said I, and call your Master; but she made no reply, nor could she stir. Upon this I shrieked, and in came my dear Husband, whom I ran to embrace; when no sooner had I touched him, but he became good for nothing; that @@ -2861,8 +2706,7 @@ terrified, I began to rave, and beat my Breast, which awaked Sir <i>Charles</i>, who kindly called me from this State of Inquietude, and composed my Mind."</p> -<span class="newpage"><a name="page144" id= -"page144">[144]</a></span> +<span class="newpage"><a id="page144">[144]</a></span> <p>This Scene I have often considered as a Lesson, instructing me, that a Load of Riches bring, instead of Felicity, a Load of @@ -2881,8 +2725,7 @@ who is now writing the History of his Life.</i></p> <p>It is generally known, that <i>Tom Two-Shoes</i> went to Sea when he was a very little Boy, and very poor; and that he returned a very great Man, and very rich; but no one knows how he acquired -so much Wealth but myself, and a few <span class="newpage"><a name= -"page145" id="page145">[145]</a></span>Friends, who have perused +so much Wealth but myself, and a few <span class="newpage"><a id="page145">[145]</a></span>Friends, who have perused the Papers from which I am compiling the History of his Life.</p> <p>After <i>Tom</i> had been at Sea some Years, he was @@ -2899,11 +2742,9 @@ large Woods and Forests, that were full of wild Beasts and without Inhabitants, he must have been soon starved or torn in Pieces, had he not been both fed and protected by this noble Animal.</p> -<span class="newpage"><a name="page146" id= -"page146">[146]</a></span> +<span class="newpage"><a id="page146">[146]</a></span> -<center><img src="images/image35.png" width="398" height="294" alt= -"Tom and the Lion" border="0"></center> +<div style="text-align: center"><img src="images/image35.png" alt= "Tom and the Lion" style="width: 398px; height: 294px; border: none"></div> <p><i>Tom</i> had provided himself with two Guns, a Sword, and as much Powder and Ball as he could carry; with these Arms, and such a @@ -2912,20 +2753,17 @@ in these wild and extensive Forests, having never seen the Effects of a Gun, readily ran from the Lion, who hunted on one Side, to <i>Tom</i>, who hunted on the other, so that they were either caught by the Lion, or shot by his Master; and it was pleasant -enough, after a <span class="newpage"><a name="page147" id= -"page147">[147]</a></span>hunting Match, and the Meat was dressed, +enough, after a <span class="newpage"><a id="page147">[147]</a></span>hunting Match, and the Meat was dressed, to see how Cheek by Joul they sat down to Dinner.</p> -<center><img src="images/image36.png" width="390" height="306" alt= -"Statue of a Man" border="0"></center> +<div style="text-align: center"><img src="images/image36.png" alt= "Statue of a Man" style="width: 390px; height: 306px; border: none"></div> <p>When they came info the Land of <i>Utopia</i>, he discovered the Statue of a Man created on an open Plain, which had this Inscription on the Pedestal: <i>On</i> May-day <i>in the Morning, when the Sun rises, I shall have a Head of Gold</i>. As it was now the latter End of <i>April</i>, he stayed to see this wonderful -Change; and in the mean time, <span class="newpage"><a name= -"page148" id="page148">[148]</a></span>enquiring of a poor Shepherd +Change; and in the mean time, <span class="newpage"><a id="page148">[148]</a></span>enquiring of a poor Shepherd what was the Reason of the Statue being erected there, and with that Inscription, he was informed, that it was set up many Years ago by an <i>Arabian</i> Philosopher, who travelled all the World @@ -2940,10 +2778,9 @@ Morning, expecting to see the Stone-head turned to Gold.</p> <p><i>Tom</i> got up very early on the first of <i>May</i> to behold this amazing Change, and when he came near the Statue he saw a Number of People, who all ran away from him in the utmost -Consternation, hating never before seen a Lion follow a Man like a +Consternation, having never before seen a Lion follow a Man like a Lap-dog. Being thus left alone, he fixed his Eyes on the Sun, then -rising with <span class="newpage"><a name="page149" id= -"page149">[149]</a></span>resplendent Majesty, and afterwards +rising with <span class="newpage"><a id="page149">[149]</a></span>resplendent Majesty, and afterwards turned to the Statue, but could see no Change in the Stone.--Surely, says he to himself, there is some mystical Meaning in this! This Inscription must be an Ænigma, the hidden @@ -2955,7 +2792,7 @@ Head fell, then getting a <i>Chopness</i> (a Thing like a Spade) and digging, he discovered a Copper-chest, full of Gold, with this Inscription engraved on the Lid of it.</p> -<center> +<div style="text-align: center"> <p>Thy W <small>I T</small>,<br> Oh Man! whoever thou art,<br> Hath disclos'd the Ænigma,<br> @@ -2965,8 +2802,7 @@ Take it and use it,<br> But use it with W <small>I S D O M</small>;<br> For know,<br> That G <small>O L D</small>, properly employ'd,<br> -<span class="newpage"><a name="page150" id= -"page150">[150]</a></span> May dispense Blessings,<br> +<span class="newpage"><a id="page150">[150]</a></span> May dispense Blessings,<br> And promote the Happiness of Morals;<br> But when hoarded up,<br> Or misapply'd,<br> @@ -2982,15 +2818,14 @@ As thou hast got the G <small>O L D E N</small> H <small>E A D</small>,<br> Observe the <i>Golden Mean</i>,<br> Be <i>Good</i> and be happy.</p> -</center> +</div> <p>This Lesson, coming as it were from the Dead, struck him with such Awe, and Reverence for Piety and Virtue, that, before he removed the Treasure, he kneeled down, and earnestly and fervently prayed that he might make a prudent, just and proper Use of it. He then conveyed the Chest away; but how he got it to <i>England</i>, -the Reader <span class="newpage"><a name="page151" id= -"page151">[151]</a></span>will be informed in the History of his +the Reader <span class="newpage"><a id="page151">[151]</a></span>will be informed in the History of his Life. It may not be improper, however, in this Place, to give the Reader some Account of the Philosopher who hid this Treasure, and took so much Pains to find a true and real Friend to enjoy it. As @@ -3007,7 +2842,7 @@ or as soon as he pretended to be in Distress, and requested their Assistance, left him to struggle with his own Difficulties. So true is that Copy in our Books, which says, <i>Adversity is the Touchstone of Friendship</i>. At last, however, he <span class= -"newpage"><a name="page152" id="page152">[152]</a></span>met with +"newpage"><a id="page152">[152]</a></span>met with the <i>Utopian</i> Philosopher, or the wise Man of the Mountain, as he is called, and thought in him he had found the Friend he wanted; for though he often pretended to be in Distress, and abandoned to @@ -3023,8 +2858,7 @@ Days, went to see, but found it gone. How was he struck to the Heart, when he found that his Friend, whom he had often tried, and who had relieved him in his Distress, could not withstand this Temptation, but broke through the sacred Bonds of Friendship, and -turned even <span class="newpage"><a name="page153" id= -"page153">[153]</a></span>a Thief for Gold which he did not want, +turned even <span class="newpage"><a id="page153">[153]</a></span>a Thief for Gold which he did not want, as he was already very rich. Oh! said he, what is the Heart of Man made of? Why am I condemned to live among People who have no Sincerity, and who barter the most sacred Ties of Friendship and @@ -3040,7 +2874,7 @@ other, in Hopes of getting more Wealth, appointed the next Evening. They went together, opened the Ground, and found the Money they had first placed there, for the artful Wretch, he so much confided in, had conveyed it again into the Pot, in order to obtain more. <span -class="newpage"><a name="page154" id="page154">[154]</a></span>Our +class="newpage"><a id="page154">[154]</a></span>Our Philosopher immediately took the Gold, and putting it into his Pocket, told the other he had now altered his Mind, and should bury it no more, till he found a Man more worthy of his Confidence. See @@ -3059,14 +2893,13 @@ Person in Distress hath a just Title to a Portion of it.</p> <br> <br> <br> -<span class="newpage"><a name="page155" id= -"page155">[155]</a></span> +<span class="newpage"><a id="page155">[155]</a></span> -<center> +<div style="text-align: center"> <p><i>A</i> L <small>E T T E R</small> <i>from the</i> P <small>R I N T E R</small>,<br> <i>which he desires may be inserted</i>.</p> -</center> +</div> <p>S <small>I R</small>,</p> @@ -3086,8 +2919,7 @@ gone from the Tree, but it was shivered in Pieces by Lightning! 'Tis remarkable, that as soon as they came from the Tree the Dog appeared to be very well satisfied, and barked no more. The Gentleman after this always regarded the Dog as his Friend, treated -him in his Old <span class="newpage"><a name="page156" id= -"page156">[156]</a></span>Age with great Tenderness, and fed him +him in his Old <span class="newpage"><a id="page156">[156]</a></span>Age with great Tenderness, and fed him with Milk as long as he lived.</p> <p>My old Master <i>Grierson</i> had also a Dog, that ought to be @@ -3105,307 +2937,303 @@ relating this Story, and shewing the Dog, used to address us thus, <i>Ah, my Friends, had you but half the Sense of this poor Dog here, you would never get fuddled, and be Fools.</i></p> -<p align="right">I am, Sir, Your's, +<p style="text-align: right;">I am, Sir, Your's, &c. W.B.</p> -<span class="newpage"><a name="page157" id= -"page157">[157]</a></span> +<span class="newpage"><a id="page157">[157]</a></span> <p>The B <small>O O K S</small> usually read by the Scholars of Mrs. T <small>W O</small>-S <small>H O E S</small>, are these, and are sold at Mr. N <small>E W B E R Y</small>'s at the <i>Bible</i> and <i>Sun</i> in St. <i>Paul's</i> Church-yard.</p> -<table summary="Mrs. Two-Shoes Books"> +<table> <tr> -<td valign="top">1.</td> +<td style="vertical-align: top;">1.</td> <td>The <i>Christmas-Box</i>, Price 1d.</td> </tr> <tr> -<td valign="top">2.</td> +<td style="vertical-align: top;">2.</td> <td>The History of <i>Giles Gingerbread</i>, 1d.</td> </tr> <tr> -<td valign="top">3.</td> +<td style="vertical-align: top;">3.</td> <td>The <i>New-Year's-Gift</i>, 2d.</td> </tr> <tr> -<td valign="top">4.</td> +<td style="vertical-align: top;">4.</td> <td>The <i>Easter-Gift</i>, 2d.</td> </tr> <tr> -<td valign="top">5.</td> +<td style="vertical-align: top;">5.</td> <td>The <i>Whitsuntide-Gift</i>, 2d.</td> </tr> <tr> -<td valign="top">6.</td> +<td style="vertical-align: top;">6.</td> <td>The <i>Twelfth-Day-Gift</i>, 1s.</td> </tr> <tr> -<td valign="top">7.</td> +<td style="vertical-align: top;">7.</td> <td>The <i>Valentine's-Gift</i>, 6d.</td> </tr> <tr> -<td valign="top">8.</td> +<td style="vertical-align: top;">8.</td> <td>The F <small>A I R I N G</small> or <i>Golden Toy</i>, 6d.</td> </tr> <tr> -<td valign="top">9.</td> +<td style="vertical-align: top;">9.</td> <td>The <i>Royal Battledore</i>, 2d.</td> </tr> <tr> -<td valign="top">10.</td> +<td style="vertical-align: top;">10.</td> <td>The <i>Royal Primer</i>, 3d.</td> </tr> <tr> -<td valign="top">11.</td> +<td style="vertical-align: top;">11.</td> <td>The <i>Little Lottery-Book</i>, 3d.</td> </tr> <tr> -<td valign="top">12.</td> +<td style="vertical-align: top;">12.</td> <td>The <i>Little Pretty Pocket-Book</i>, 6d.</td> </tr> <tr> -<td valign="top">13.</td> +<td style="vertical-align: top;">13.</td> <td>The <i>Infant Tutor</i>, <i>or pretty Little Spelling-Book</i>, 6d.</td> </tr> <tr> -<td valign="top">14.</td> +<td style="vertical-align: top;">14.</td> <td>The <i>Pretty Book for Children</i>, 6d.</td> </tr> <tr> -<td valign="top">15.</td> +<td style="vertical-align: top;">15.</td> <td><i>Tom Trapwit's Art of being Merry and Wife</i>, 6d.</td> </tr> <tr> -<td valign="top">16.</td> +<td style="vertical-align: top;">16.</td> <td><i>Tom Trip's History of Birds and Beasts</i>, Price 6d.</td> </tr> <tr> -<td valign="top">17.</td> +<td style="vertical-align: top;">17.</td> <td><i>Food for the Mind</i>, <i>or a New Riddle Book</i>, 6d.</td> </tr> <tr> -<td valign="top">18.<span class="newpage"><a name="page158" id= -"page158">[158]</a></span></td> +<td style="vertical-align: top;">18.<span class="newpage"><a id="page158">[158]</a></span></td> <td><i>Fables in Verse and Prose by Æsop, and your old Friend Woglog</i>, 6d.</td> </tr> <tr> -<td valign="top">19.</td> +<td style="vertical-align: top;">19.</td> <td>The <i>Holy Bible abridged</i>, 6d.</td> </tr> <tr> -<td valign="top">20.</td> +<td style="vertical-align: top;">20.</td> <td>The <i>History of the Creation</i>, 6d.</td> </tr> <tr> -<td valign="top">21.</td> +<td style="vertical-align: top;">21.</td> <td><i>A new and noble History of England</i>, 6d.</td> </tr> <tr> -<td valign="top">22.</td> +<td style="vertical-align: top;">22.</td> <td><i>Philosophy for Children</i>, 6d.</td> </tr> <tr> -<td valign="top">23.</td> +<td style="vertical-align: top;">23.</td> <td><i>Philosophy of Tops and Balls</i>, 1s.</td> </tr> <tr> -<td valign="top">24.</td> +<td style="vertical-align: top;">24.</td> <td><i>Pretty Poems for Children 3 Foot high</i>, 6d.</td> </tr> <tr> -<td valign="top">25.</td> +<td style="vertical-align: top;">25.</td> <td><i>Pretty Poems for Children 6 Foot high</i>, 1s.</td> </tr> <tr> -<td valign="top">26.</td> +<td style="vertical-align: top;">26.</td> <td><i>Lilliputian Magazine, or Golden Library</i>, 1s.</td> </tr> <tr> -<td valign="top">27.</td> +<td style="vertical-align: top;">27.</td> <td><i>Short Histories for the Improvement of the Mind</i>, 1s.</td> </tr> <tr> -<td valign="top">28.</td> +<td style="vertical-align: top;">28.</td> <td>The <i>New Testament</i>, adapted to the Capacities of Children, 1s.</td> </tr> <tr> -<td valign="top">29.</td> +<td style="vertical-align: top;">29.</td> <td>The Life of our Blessed S <small>A V I O U R</small>, 1s.</td> </tr> <tr> -<td valign="top">30.</td> +<td style="vertical-align: top;">30.</td> <td>The Lives of the Holy <i>Apostles</i> and <i>Evangelists</i>, 1s.</td> </tr> <tr> -<td valign="top">31.</td> +<td style="vertical-align: top;">31.</td> <td>The Lives of the <i>Fathers</i> of the <i>Christian</i> Church for the first four Centuries, 1s.</td> </tr> <tr> -<td valign="top">32.</td> +<td style="vertical-align: top;">32.</td> <td>A Concise <i>Exposition</i> of the Book of <i>Common Prayer</i>, with the Lives of its <i>Compilers</i>, 1s.</td> </tr> <tr> -<td valign="top">33.</td> +<td style="vertical-align: top;">33.</td> <td>The <i>Museum</i> for Youth, 1s.</td> </tr> <tr> -<td valign="top">34.<span class="newpage"><a name="page159" id= -"page159">[159]</a></span></td> +<td style="vertical-align: top;">34.<span class="newpage"><a id="page159">[159]</a></span></td> <td>An Easy <i>Spelling Dictionary</i> for those who would write correctly, 1s.</td> </tr> <tr> -<td valign="top">35.</td> +<td style="vertical-align: top;">35.</td> <td>A <i>Pocket Dictionary</i> for those who would know the precise Meaning of all the Words in the <i>English</i> Language, 3s.</td> </tr> <tr> -<td valign="top">36.</td> +<td style="vertical-align: top;">36.</td> <td>A Compendious History of <i>England</i>, 2s.</td> </tr> <tr> -<td valign="top">37.</td> +<td style="vertical-align: top;">37.</td> <td>The Present State of <i>Great Britain</i>, 2s.</td> </tr> <tr> -<td valign="top">38.</td> +<td style="vertical-align: top;">38.</td> <td>A Little Book of Letters and Cards, to teach young Ladies and Gentlemen how to write to their Friends in a polite, easy and elegant Manner, 1s.</td> </tr> <tr> -<td valign="top">39.</td> +<td style="vertical-align: top;">39.</td> <td>The Gentleman and Lady's Key to <i>Polite Literature</i>; or, A <i>Compendious Dictionary</i> of Fabulous History, 2s.</td> </tr> <tr> -<td valign="top">40.</td> +<td style="vertical-align: top;">40.</td> <td>The News-Readers Pocket-Book; or, A <i>Military Dictionary</i>, 2s.</td> </tr> <tr> -<td valign="top">41.</td> +<td style="vertical-align: top;">41.</td> <td>A Curious Collection of Voyages, selected from the Writers of all Nations, 10 Vol. Pr. bound 1l.</td> </tr> <tr> -<td valign="top">42.</td> +<td style="vertical-align: top;">42.</td> <td>A Curious Collection of Travels, selected from the Writers of all Nations, 10 Vol; Pr. bound 1l.</td> </tr> </table> -<span class="newpage"><a name="page160" id= -"page160">[160]</a></span> +<span class="newpage"><a id="page160">[160]</a></span> -<center> +<div style="text-align: center"> <p>By the KING'S Royal Patent,</p> -</center> +</div> <p>Are Sold by J. NEWBERY, at the <i>Bible</i> and <i>Sun</i> in <i>St. Paul's Church-Yard</i>.</p> -<table summary="Other books sold by J Newbery"> +<table> <tr> -<td valign="top">1.</td> +<td style="vertical-align: top;">1.</td> <td>Dr. <i>James's Powders</i> for Fevers, the Small-Pox, Measles, Colds, &c. 2s. 6d.</td> </tr> <tr> -<td valign="top">2.</td> +<td style="vertical-align: top;">2.</td> <td>Dr. <i>Hooper's Female Pills</i>, 1s.</td> </tr> <tr> -<td valign="top">3.</td> +<td style="vertical-align: top;">3.</td> <td>Mr. <i>Greenough's Tincture</i> for Teeth, 1s.</td> </tr> <tr> -<td valign="top">4.</td> +<td style="vertical-align: top;">4.</td> <td><i>Ditto</i> for the Tooth-Ach, 1s.</td> </tr> <tr> -<td valign="top">5.</td> +<td style="vertical-align: top;">5.</td> <td><i>Stomachic Lozenges</i> for the Heart-burn, Cholic, Indigestion, &c. 1s. 6d.</td> </tr> <tr> -<td valign="top">6.</td> +<td style="vertical-align: top;">6.</td> <td>The <i>Balsam of Health</i>, or, (as it is by some called) the Balsam of Life, 1s. 6d.</td> </tr> <tr> -<td valign="top">7.</td> +<td style="vertical-align: top;">7.</td> <td>The <i>Original Daffy's Elixir</i>, 1s. 3d.</td> </tr> <tr> -<td valign="top">8.</td> +<td style="vertical-align: top;">8.</td> <td>Dr. <i>Anderson's Scots Pills</i>, 1s.</td> </tr> <tr> -<td valign="top">9.</td> +<td style="vertical-align: top;">9.</td> <td>The <i>Original British Oil</i>, 1s.</td> </tr> <tr> -<td valign="top">10.</td> +<td style="vertical-align: top;">10.</td> <td>The <i>Alterative Pills</i>, which are a safe, and certain Cure for the King's Evil, and all Scrophulous Complaints, 5s. the Box, containing 40 Doses.----<i>See a Dissertation on these Disorders @@ -3416,4 +3244,3 @@ sold at the Place above-mentioned</i>, Price 6d.</td> <div>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 13675 ***</div> </body> </html> - diff --git a/LICENSE.txt b/LICENSE.txt index 6312041..b5dba15 100644 --- a/LICENSE.txt +++ b/LICENSE.txt @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -This eBook, including all associated images, markup, improvements, +This book, including all associated images, markup, improvements, metadata, and any other content or labor, has been confirmed to be in the PUBLIC DOMAIN IN THE UNITED STATES. @@ -7,5 +7,5 @@ the "Copyright How-To" at https://www.gutenberg.org. 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You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org - - -Title: Goody Two-Shoes - A Facsimile Reproduction Of The Edition Of 1766 - -Author: Anonymous - -Release Date: October 8, 2004 [EBook #13675] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK GOODY TWO-SHOES *** - - - - -Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Tom Roch, Leah Moser and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team. - - - - - - GOODY TWO-SHOES - - A FACSIMILE REPRODUCTION - - OF THE - - EDITION OF 1766 - - _WITH AN INTRODUCTION_ - - BY - - CHARLES WELSH - - - - - GRIFFITH & FARRAN - - _Successors to Newbery & Harris_ - - WEST CORNER OF ST PAUL'S CHURCHYARD, LONDON - - 1881 - - - - - INTRODUCTION. - - * * * * * - - -In _The London Chronicle_ for December 19--January 1, 1765--the -following advertisement appeared:-- - - "The Philosophers, Politicians, Necromancers, and the Learned in every - Faculty are desired to observe that on the 1st of January, being New - Year's Day (Oh, that we may all lead new Lives!), Mr Newbery intends - to publish the following important volumes, bound and gilt, and hereby - invites all his little friends who are good to call for them at the - Bible and Sun, in St Paul's Churchyard: but those who are naughty are - to have none. - - "1. The Renowned History of Giles Gingerbread: a little boy who lived - upon learning. - - "2. The Easter Gift; or the way to be good; a book much wanted. - - "3. The Whitsuntide Gift: or the way to be happy; a book very necessary - for all families. - - "4. The Valentine Gift: or how to behave with honour, integrity, and - humanity: very useful with a Trading Nation. - - "5. The Fairing: or a golden present for children. In which they can - see all the fun of the fair, and at home be as happy as if they were - there, a Book of great consequence to all whom it may concern.' - - "We are also desired to give notice that there is in the Press, and - speedily will be published either by subscription or otherwise, as the - Public shall please to determine, The History of Little Goody Two - Shoes, otherwise called Margery Two Shoes. Printed and sold at The - Bible and Sun in St Paul's Churchyard, where may be had all Mr - Newbery's little books for the children and youth of these kingdoms - and the colonies. New Editions of those which were out of print are - now republished. - - "The publication of the Lilliputian System of Politics is postponed - till the meeting of Parliament. This work, which will be replete with - cuts and characters, is not intended to exalt or depress any - particular country, to support the pride of any particular family, or - to feed the folly of any particular party, but to stimulate the mind - to virtue, to promote universal benevolence, to make mankind happy. - Those who would know more of the matter may enquire of Mr Newbery." - -This quaint and curious announcement, with its sly humour and serious -playfulness, is characteristic of the house of John Newbery, in the -latter part of the last century; and there is no need to speak here of -the fame of the books for children which he published; "the -philanthropic publisher of St Paul's Churchyard," as Goldsmith calls -him, conferred inestimable benefits upon thousands of little folk, of -both high and low estate. It is said of Southey when a child that - - "The well-known publishers of "Goody Two Shoes," "Giles Gingerbread," - and other such delectable histories, in sixpenny books for children, - splendidly bound in the flowered and gilt Dutch paper of former days, - sent him twenty such volumes, and laid the foundation of a love of - books which grew with the child's growth, and did not cease even when - the vacant mind and eye could only gaze in piteous, though blissful - imbecility upon the things they loved."[A] - -Many of these little books have been doubtless long since forgotten, -though they did not deserve such a fate; but the name of "Goody Two -Shoes" is still familiar to the ears of English children, though the -book itself may be unknown to thousands of little ones of this later -generation. - -"Goody Two Shoes" was published in April 1765, and few nursery books -have had a wider circulation, or have retained their position so long. -The number of editions that have been published both in England and -America is legion, and it has appeared in mutilated versions under the -auspices of numerous publishing houses in London and the provinces, -although of late years there have been no new issues. Even in 1802, -Charles Lamb in writing to Coleridge, said-- - - ""Goody Two Shoes" is almost out of print. Mrs Barbauld's stuff has - banished all the old classics of the nursery, and the shopman at - Newbery's hardly deigned to reach them off an old exploded corner of - a shelf, when Mary asked for them. Mrs Barbauld's and Mrs Trimmer's - nonsense lay in piles about. Knowledge, insignificant and vapid as Mrs - Barbauld's books convey, it seems must come to a child in the shape of - knowledge; and his empty noddle must be turned with conceit of his own - powers when he has learnt that a horse is an animal, and Billy is - better than a horse, and such like, instead of that beautiful interest - in wild tales, which made the child a man, while all the time he - suspected himself to be no bigger than a child. Science has succeeded - to poetry no less in the little walks of children than with men. Is - there no possibility of averting this sore evil? Think what you would - have been now, if instead of being fed with tales and old wives' - fables in childhood, you had been crammed with geography and natural - history! - - "Hang them!--I mean the cursed Barbauld crew, those blights and blasts - of all that is human in man and child."[B] - -There must, however, be many parents still living who remember the -delight that the little story gave them in their younger days, and -they will, no doubt, be pleased to see it once more in the form which -was then so familiar to them. The children of to-day, too, will look -on it with some curiosity, on account of the fact that it is one of -the oldest of our nursery tales, and amused and edified their -grand-parents and great grand-parents when they were children, while -they cannot fail to be attracted by its simple, pretty, and -interesting story. - - * * * * * - -The question of the authorship of the book is still an unsettled one. -It was at one time commonly attributed to Oliver Goldsmith, and no one -who reads the book will consider it to be unworthy of the poet's pen. -We find, however, in Nichol's Literary Anecdotes, that - - "It is not perhaps generally known that to Mr Griffith Jones, and a - brother of his, Mr Giles Jones, in conjunction with Mr John Newbery, - the public are indebted for the origin of those numerous and popular - little books for the amusement and instruction of children which have - been ever since received with universal approbation. The Lilliputian - histories of Goody Two Shoes, Giles Gingerbread, Tommy Trip, &c., &c., - are remarkable proofs of the benevolent minds of the projectors of - this plan of instruction, and respectable instances of the - accommodation of superior talents to the feeble intellects of - infantine felicity." - -Mr Giles Jones was the grandfather of the late Mr Winter Jones, -formerly the Principal Librarian of the British Museum, and the book -is attributed to the first-named gentleman in the catalogue of the -British Museum. It is claimed also that the book offers internal -evidence in support of Mr Giles Jones' authorship, inasmuch as Goody -Two Shoes becomes Lady Jones, and one of the prominent families in the -book is also named Jones. - -Beyond this, however, there appears to be no evidence as to Mr Giles -Jones being the writer, and I think something may be said as to the -claim on behalf of the poet Goldsmith, although I am by no means -anxious that the honour of having written it should be ascribed either -to the one or to the other: the following remarks, which are mainly -taken from an article I contributed to the _Athenæum_ in April -1881, are offered simply as speculations which may not be without -interest to lovers of the little book. They may, perhaps, show that -there is some reason for attributing the work to Oliver Goldsmith, -although, of course, it is not claimed that they absolutely establish -the fact. - -Having occasion to examine carefully as many of the books for children -published by John Newbery as I could procure (and they are as scarce -as blackberries in midwinter, for what among books has so brief a life -as a nursery book?), I was struck while perusing them with a certain -distinct literary flavour, so to speak, which appeared to be common to -a group of little volumes, all published about the same period. These -were: "Goody Two Shoes," "Giles Gingerbread," "Tom Thumb's Folio," -"The Lilliputian Magazine," "The Lilliputian Masquerade," "The Easter -Gift," "A Pretty Plaything," "The Fairing," "Be Merry and Wise," "The -Valentine's Gift," "Pretty Poems for the Amusement of Children Three -Feet High," "A Pretty Book of Pictures," "Tom Telescope," and a few -others. I give abbreviated titles only, but if space permitted I mould -like to quote them in full; they are remarkable no less for their -curious quaintness and their clever ingenuity than for their -attractiveness to both parents (who, it must not be forgotten, are -more often the real buyers of children's books) and the young people -for whom they were written, and they are in themselves most -entertaining and amusing reading. This group of little books -possesses, moreover, another characteristic that is sufficiently -remarkable of itself to be noticed. While they all evince a real -genius for writing in a style suited to the capacities of little folk, -there is a nameless something about them which, far more than is the -case with thousands of other books for the young, is calculated to -enforce the attention and excite the interest of "children of a larger -growth." - -Now one of this little group, "The Lilliputian Magazine," is -attributed in the British Museum Catalogue to Oliver Goldsmith; and so -strong is the family likeness in all the books I have mentioned, that -I cannot but believe they are all by the same hand--a belief which I -think will be shared by any one who will take the trouble to compare -them carefully. But I should advise him to rely on the Newbery -editions alone, for grievously garbled versions of nearly every one of -these books have been issued from many different houses throughout the -country. - -Many authorities have supported the view that Goldsmith was the author -of "Goody Two Shoes." Conspicuous among them was Washington Irving, -who says, "It is suggested with great probability that he wrote for Mr -Newbery the famous nursery story of 'Goody Two Shoes.'" It is said -also that William Godwin held this opinion; and I believe there is -authority for stating that the Misses Bewick, the daughters of the -celebrated engraver, who illustrated an edition of the book for T. -Saint, of Newcastle, understood from their father that it was by -Oliver Goldsmith. - -But let us turn to the book itself and see if it furnishes any -evidence on the point. The very title, with its quaint phrasing, shows -no common genius, and as Washington Irving says, "bears the stamp of -his [Goldsmith's] sly and playful humour." As the book was published -in 1765, it would most likely have been written just at the time when -Goldsmith was working most industriously in the service of Newbery -(1763-4), at which period it will be remembered that he was living -near Newbery at Islington, and his publisher was paying for his board -and lodging. - -Without, of course, claiming that similarity of idea in different -writings necessarily betokens the same authorship, I think the -parallels that are to be found in this little book, with many of the -sentiments in Oliver Goldsmith's acknowledged work--to say nothing of -the almost universally recognized likeness to Goldsmith's style that -is found in "Goody Two Shoes" may fairly be considered as throwing -some light upon the question. - -The most striking of these parallels is perhaps that furnished by the -curious little political preface to the work--a preface which is quite -unnecessary to the book, and I think would only have been inserted by -one who was full of the unjustnesses at which he was preparing to aim -a still heavier blow. In describing the parish of Mouldwell, where -little Margery was born, an exact picture is drawn of "The Deserted -Village," where - - One only master grasps the whole domain - And half a tillage tints thy smiling plain; - -And where - - ---- the man of wealth and pride - Takes up a space that many a poor supplied: - Space for his lakes his park's extended bounds, - Space for his horses, equipage, and hounds. - -And by this and other tyrannies, and being also - - Scourged by famine from the smiling land, - -for he was "unfortunate in his business" at about the same time, Sir -Timothy accomplishes his aim, and - - Indignant spurns the cottage from the green. - -Ruined by this oppression, poor Mr Meanwell is turned out of doors, -and flew to another parish for succour. - - Where, then, ah! where shall poverty reside - To 'scape the pressure of contiguous pride? - -Sir Timothy, however, suffers for his injustice and wickedness, for -"great part of the land lay untilled for some years, which was deemed -a just reward for such diabolical proceedings." - - Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, - Where wealth accumulates and men decay. - -Miss Charlotte Yonge, to whom I shall refer again, lays upon this: "If -the conjecture be true which attributes this tale to Oliver Goldsmith, -we have seen the same spirit which prompted his poem of 'The Deserted -Village,' namely, indignation and dismay at the discouragement of -small holdings in the early part of the eighteenth century."[C] -Indeed, it may well be that we have in this preface even a more true -picture of Lissoy than that given in the poem, which, as Mr William -Black says in his monograph on Goldsmith, "is there seen through the -softening and beautifying mist of years." - -Much more might be said of the characteristics of this little book, -which contains so much that reminds us not only of the style but the -matter of many of Goldsmith's writings. Miss Yonge says: "There is a -certain dry humour in some passages and a tenderness in others that -incline us much to the belief that it could come from no one else but -the writer of 'The Vicar of Wakefield' and 'The Deserted Village.' -Indeed, we could almost imagine that Dr Primrose himself had described -the panic at the supposed ghost in the church in the same tone as the -ride to church, the family portrait, or the gross of green -spectacles.'[D] We find in "Goody Two Shoes" every one of those -distinctive qualities of Goldsmith's writings which Mr William Black -so well summarizes in the book already referred to--"his genuine and -tender pathos, that never at any time verges on the affected or -theatrical;" his "quaint, delicate, delightful humour;" his "broader -humour, that is not afraid to provoke the wholesome laughter of -mankind by dealing with common and familiar ways and manners and men;" -his "choiceness of diction;" his "lightness and grace of touch, that -lend a charm even to" his "ordinary hack work." - - * * * * * - -The reprint which is here presented is a photographic facsimile of -the earliest complete copy that we have been able to procure. Judging -from fragments of earlier editions in the possession of the -publishers, it would appear to be printed from exactly the same types -as the original issue of April 1765. The copy from which the reprint -is made was kindly lent to the publishers by Mr Ernest Hartley -Coleridge, whose collection at the South Kensington Museum of -eighteenth century books for children is well known. The actual size -of that book is 4 inches by 2-3/4, but it has been thought better to -print on somewhat larger paper. The original is bound in the once -familiar Dutch flowered and gilt pattern paper, and we had hoped to -present the reprint in a similar cover, but it was found impossible, -as nothing like it could be procured, nor could the manufacturers of -the present day exactly reproduce it. - -[Footnote A: Essays from the _Times_. Robert Southey. By Samuel -Phillips, pp. 168-169, vol. i.] - -[Footnote B: _See_ "The Works of Charles Lamb." By Percy -Fitzgerald, M.A., F.S.A. Vol. 1. Page 420. London: E. Moxon & Co., -1876.] - -[Footnote C: "A Storehouse of Stories," p. 69, First Series.] - -[Footnote D: "A Storehouse of Stories," First Series, preface.] - - - - -[Illustration: Little Goody Two-Shoes.] - - - THE - - HISTORY - - OF - - Little GOODY TWO-SHOES; - - Otherwise called, - - Mrs. MARGERY TWO-SHOES. - - WITH - -The Means by which she acquired her Learning and Wisdom, and in -consequence thereof her Estate; set forth at large for the Benefit -of those, - - _Who from a State of Rags and Care - And having Shoes but half a Pair; - Their Fortune and their Fame would fix, - And gallop in a Coach and Six._ - -See the Original Manuscript in the _Vatican_ at _Rome_, and -the Cuts by _Michael Angelo_. Illustrated with the Comments of -our great modern Critics. - - ------------------------ - The THIRD EDITION. - ------------------------ - _LONDON_: - - Printed for J. NEWBERY, at the _Bible_ and - _Sun_ in St._Paul's-Church-Yard,_ 1766. - (Price Six-pence.) - - - - TO ALL - - Young Gentlemen and Ladies, - - Who are good, or intend to be good, - - This BOOK - - Is inscribed by - - Their old Friend - - In St. Paul's Church-yard. - - - - The Renowned - - HISTORY - - OF - - Little GOODY TWO-SHOES, - - Commonly called, - - Old GOODY TWO-SHOES. - - - ------------------------ - PART I. - ------------------------ - - INTRODUCTION. By the Editor. - - -All the World must allow, that _Two Shoes_ was not her real Name. -No; her Father's Name was _Meanwell_; and he was for many Years a -considerable Farmer in the Parish where _Margery_ was born; but -by the Misfortunes which he met with in Business, and the wicked -Persecutions of Sir _Timothy Gripe_, and an over-grown Farmer -called _Graspall_, he was effectually ruined. - -The Case was thus. The Parish of _Mouldwell_ where they lived, -had for many Ages been let by the Lord of the Manor into twelve -different Farms, in which the Tenants lived comfortably, brought up -large Families, and carefully supported the poor People who laboured -for them; until the Estate by Marriage and by Death came into the -Hands of Sir _Timothy_. - -This Gentleman, who loved himself better than all his Neighbours, -thought it less Trouble to write one Receipt for his Rent than twelve, -and Farmer _Graspall_ offering to take all the Farms as the Leases -expired, Sir _Timothy_ agreed with him, and in Process of Time he was -possessed of every Farm, but that occupied by little _Margery's_ -Father; which he also wanted; for as Mr. _Meanwell_ was a charitable -good Man, he stood up for the Poor at the Parish Meetings, and was -unwilling to have them oppressed by Sir _Timothy_, and this -avaricious Farmer.--Judge, oh kind, humane and courteous Reader, what -a terrible Situation the Poor must be in, when this covetous Man was -perpetual Overseer, and every Thing for their Maintenance was drawn -from his hard Heart and cruel Hand. But he was not only perpetual -Overseer, but perpetual Church-warden; and judge, oh ye Christians, -what State the Church must be in, when supported by a Man without -Religion or Virtue. He was also perpetual Surveyor of the Highways, -and what Sort of Roads he kept up for the Convenience of Travellers, -those best know who have had the Misfortune to be obliged to pass -thro' that Parish.--Complaints indeed were made, but to what Purpose -are Complaints, when brought against a Man, who can hunt, drink, and -smoak with the Lord of the Manor, who is also the Justice of Peace? - -The Opposition which little _Margery's_ Father made to this Man's -Tyranny, gave Offence to Sir _Timothy_, who endeavoured to force -him out of his Farm; and to oblige him to throw up the Lease, ordered -both a Brick Kiln and a Dog-kennel to be erected in the Farmer's -Orchard. This was contrary to Law, and a Suit was commenced, in which -_Margery's_ Father got the better. The same Offence was again -committed three different Times, and as many Actions brought, in all -of which the Farmer had a Verdict and Costs paid him; but -notwithstanding these Advantages, the Law was so expensive, that he -was ruined in the Contest, and obliged to give up all he had to his -Creditors; which effectually answered the Purpose of Sir -_Timothy_, who erected those Nuisances in the Farmer's Orchard -with that Intention only. Ah, my dear Reader, we brag of Liberty, and -boast of our Laws: but the Blessings of the one, and the Protection of -the other, seldom fall to the Lot of the Poor; and especially when a -rich Man is their Adversary. How, in the Name of Goodness, can a poor -Wretch obtain Redress, when thirty Pounds are insufficient to try his -Cause? Where is he to find Money to see Council, or how can he plead -his Cause himself (even if he was permitted) when our Laws are so -obscure, and so multiplied, that an Abridgment of them cannot be -contained in fifty Volumes in Folio? - -As soon as Mr. _Meanwell_ had called together his Creditors, Sir -_Timothy_ seized for a Year's Rent, and turned the Farmer, his -Wife, little _Margery_, and her Brother out of Doors, without any -of the Necessaries of Life to support them. - -[Illustration] - -This elated the Heart of Mr. _Graspall_, this crowned his Hopes, -and filled the Measure of his Iniquity; for besides gratifying his -Revenge, this Man's Overthrow gave him the sole Dominion of the Poor, -whom he depressed and abused in a Manner too horrible to mention. - -_Margery's_ Father flew into another Parish for Succour, and all -those who were able to move left their Dwellings and sought Employment -elsewhere, as they found it would be impossible to live under the -Tyranny of two such People. The very old, the very lame and the blind -were obliged to stay behind, and whether they were starved, or what -became of them, History does not say; but the Character of the great -Sir _Timothy_, and his avaricious Tenant, were so infamous, that -nobody would work for them by the Day, and Servants were afraid to -engage themselves by the Year, lest any unforeseen Accident should -leave them Parishioners in a Place, where they knew they must perish -miserably; so that great Part of the Land lay untilled for some Years, -which was deemed a just Reward for such diabolical Proceedings. - -But what, says the Reader, can occasion all this? Do you intend this -for Children, Mr. NEWBERY? Why, do you suppose this is written by Mr. -NEWBERY, Sir? This may come from another Hand. This is not the Book, -Sir, mentioned in the Title, but the Introduction to that Book; and it -is intended, Sir, not for those Sort of Children, but for Children of -six Feet high, of which, as my Friend has justly observed, there are -many Millions in the Kingdom; and these Reflections, Sir, have been -rendered necessary, by the unaccountable and diabolical Scheme which -many Gentlemen now give into, of laying a Number of Farms into one, -and very often of a whole Parish into one Farm; which in the End must -reduce the common People to a State of Vassalage, worse than that -under the Barons of old, or of the Clans in _Scotland_; and will -in Time depopulate the Kingdom. But as you are tired of the Subject, I -shall take myself away, and you may visit _Little Margery_. So, -Sir, your Servant, - -The EDITOR. - - - - - CHAP. I. - - _How and about Little_ Margery _and her_ Brother. - - -Care and Discontent shortened the Days of Little _Margery's_ -Father.--He was forced from his Family, and seized with a violent -Fever in a Place where Dr. _James's_ Powder was not to be had, -and where he died miserably. _Margery's_ poor Mother survived the -Loss of her Husband but a few Days, and died of a broken Heart, -leaving _Margery_ and her little Brother to the wide World; but, -poor Woman, it would have melted your Heart to have seen how -frequently she heaved up her Head, while she lay speechless, to survey -with languishing Looks her little Orphans, as much as to say, _Do -Tommy, do Margery, come with me_. They cried, poor Things, and she -sighed away her Soul; and I hope is happy. - -[Illustration] - -It would both have excited your Pity, and have done your Heart good, -to have seen how fond these two little ones were of each other, and -how, Hand in Hand, they trotted about. Pray see them. - -[Illustration] - -They were both very ragged, and _Tommy_ had two Shoes, but -_Margery_ had but one. They had nothing, poor Things, to support -them (not being in their own Parish) but what they picked from the -Hedges, or got from the poor People, and they lay every Night in a -Barn. Their Relations took no Notice of them; no, they were rich, and -ashamed to own such a poor little ragged Girl as _Margery_, and -such a dirty little curl-pated Boy as _Tommy_. Our Relations and -Friends seldom take Notice of us when we are poor; but as we grow rich -they grow fond. And this will always be the Case, while People love -Money better than Virtue, or better than they do GOD Almighty. But -such wicked Folks, who love nothing but Money, and are proud and -despise the Poor, never come to any good in the End, as we shall see -by and by. - - - - - CHAP. II. - - _How and about Mr._ Smith. - - -Mr. _Smith_ was a very worthy Clergyman, who lived in the Parish -where Little _Margery_ and _Tommy_ were born; and having a -Relation come to see him, who was a charitable good Man, he sent for -these Children to him. The Gentleman ordered Little _Margery_ a -new Pair of Shoes, gave Mr. _Smith_ some Money to buy her -Cloathes; and said, he would take _Tommy_ and make him a little -Sailor; and accordingly had a Jacket and Trowsers made for him, in -which he now appears. Pray look at him. - -[Illustration] - -After some Days the Gentleman intended to go to _London_, and -take little _Tommy_ with him, of whom you will know more by and -by, for we shall at a proper Time present you with some Part of his -History, his Travels and Adventures. - -[Illustration] - -The Parting between these two little Children was very affecting, -_Tommy_ cried, and _Margery_ cried, and they kissed each -other an hundred Times. At last _Tommy_ thus wiped off her Tears -with the End of his Jacket, and bid her cry no more, for that he would -come to her again, when he returned from Sea. However, as they were so -very fond, the Gentleman would not suffer them to take Leave of each -other; but told _Tommy_ he should ride out with him, and come -back at Night. When night came, Little _Margery_ grew very uneasy -about her Brother, and after sitting up as late as Mr. _Smith_ -would let her, she went crying to Bed. - - - - - CHAP. III. - - _How Little_ Margery _obtained the Name of_ - Goody Two-Shoes, _and what happened in the Parish._ - - -As soon as Little _Margery_ got up in the Morning, which was very -early, she ran all round the Village, crying for her Brother; and -after some Time returned greatly distressed. However, at this Instant, -the Shoemaker very opportunely came in with the new Shoes, for which -she had been measured by the Gentleman's Order. - -[Illustration] - -Nothing could have supported Little _Margery_ under the -Affliction she was in for the Loss of her Brother, but the Pleasure -she took in her _two Shoes_. She ran out to Mrs. _Smith_ as -soon as they were put on, and stroking down her ragged Apron thus, -cried out, _Two Shoes, Mame, see two Shoes_. And so she behaved -to all the People she met, and by that Means obtained the Name of -_Goody Two-Shoes_, though her Playmates called her _Old Goody -Two-Shoes_. - -Little _Margery_ was very happy in being with Mr. and Mrs. -_Smith_, who were very charitable and good to her, and had agreed -to breed her up with their Family; but as soon as that Tyrant of the -Parish, that _Graspall_, heard of her being there, he applied -first to Mr. _Smith_, and threatened to reduce his Tythes if he -kept her; and after that he spoke to Sir _Timothy_, who sent Mr. -_Smith_ a peremptory Message by his Servant, that _he should -send back_ Meanwell's _Girl to be kept by her Relations, and not -harbour her in the Parish_. This so distressed Mr. _Smith_ -that he shed Tears, and cried, _Lord have Mercy on the Poor!_ - -The Prayers of the Righteous fly upwards, and reach unto the Throne of -Heaven, as will be seen in the Sequel. - -[Illustration] - -Mrs. _Smith_ was also greatly concerned at being thus obliged to -discard poor Little _Margery_. She kissed her and cried; as also -did Mr. _Smith_, but they were obliged to send her away; for the -People who had ruined her Father could at any Time have ruined them. - - - - - CHAP. IV. - - _How Little_ Margery _learned to read, - and by Degrees taught others._ - - -Little _Margery_ saw how good, and how wise Mr. _Smith_ was, -and concluded, that this was owing to his great Learning, therefore -she wanted of all Things to learn to read. For this Purpose she used -to meet the little Boys and Girls as they came from School, borrow -their Books, and sit down and read till they returned; - -[Illustration] - -By this Means she soon got more Learning than any of her Playmates, -and laid the following Scheme for instructing those who were more -ignorant than herself. She found, that only the following Letters were -required to spell all the Words in the World; but as some of these -Letters are large and some small, she with her Knife cut out of -several Pieces of Wood ten Setts of each of these: - - a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o - p q r (s) s t u v w x y z. - -[Post-processor's note: (s) is an old-English style non-terminating -letter "s".] - - And six Setts of these: - - A B C D E F G H I K L M N O - P Q R S T U V W X Y Z. - -And having got an old Spelling-Book, she made her Companions set up -all the Words they wanted to spell, and after that she taught them to -compose Sentences. You know what a Sentence is, my Dear, _I will be -good_, is a Sentence; and is made up, as you see, of several Words. - -The usual Manner of Spelling, or carrying on the Game, as they called -it, was this: Suppose the Word to be spelt was Plumb Pudding (and who -can suppose a better) the Children were placed in a Circle, and the -first brought the Letter _P_, the next _l_, the next _u_, the next -_m_, and so on till the Whole was spelt; and if any one brought a -wrong Letter, he was to pay a Fine, or play no more. This was at their -Play; and every Morning she used to go round to teach the Children -with these Rattle-traps in a Basket, as you see in the Print. - -[Illustration] - -I once went her Rounds with her, and was highly diverted, as you may -be, if you please to look into the next Chapter. - - - - - CHAP. V. - - _How Little_ Two-Shoes _became a trotting Tutoress - and how she taught her young Pupils._ - - -It was about seven o'Clock in the Morning when we set out on this -important Business, and the first House we came to was Farmer -_Wilson's_. See here it is. - -[Illustration] - -Here _Margery_ stopped, and ran up to the Door, _Tap, tap, tap_. Who's -there? Only little goody _Two-Shoes_, answered _Margery_, come to -teach _Billy_. Oh Little _Goody_, says Mrs. _Wilson_, with Pleasure in -her Face, I am glad to see you, _Billy_ wants you sadly, for he has -learned all his Lesson. Then out came the little Boy. _How do doody -Two-Shoes_, says he, not able to speak plain. Yet this little Boy had -learned all his Letters; for she threw down this Alphabet mixed -together thus: - - b d f h k m o q s u w y z [f] - a c e g i l n p r t v x j - -and he picked them up, called them by their right Names, and put them -all in order thus: - - a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o - p q r (s) s t u v w x y z. - -[Post-processor's note: (s) is an old-English style non-terminating -letter "s".] - -She then threw down the Alphabet of Capital Letters in the Manner you -here see them. - - B D F H K M O Q S U W Y Z - A C E G I L N P R T V X J. - -and he picked them all up, and having told their Names, placed them -thus: - - A B C D E F G H I J K L M - N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z. - -Now, pray little Reader, take this Bodkin, and see if you can point -out the Letters from these mixed Alphabets, and tell how they should -be placed as well as little Boy _Billy_. - -The next Place we came to was Farmer _Simpson's_, and here it is. - -[Illustration] - -_Bow wow, wow_, says the Dog at the Door. Sirrah, says his -Mistress, what do you bark at Little _Two-Shoes_. Come in -_Madge_; here, _Sally_ wants you sadly, she has learned all -her Lesson. Then out came the little one: So _Madge!_ say she; so -_Sally!_ answered the other, have you learned your Lesson? Yes, -that's what I have, replied the little one in the Country Manner; and -immediately taking the Letters she set up these Syllables: - - ba be bi bo bu, ca ce ci co cu - da de di do du, fa fe fi so fu. - -and gave them their exact Sounds as she composed them; after which she -set up the following; - - ac ec ic oc uc, ad ed id od ud - af ef if of uf, ag eg ig og ug. - -And pronounced them likewise. She then sung the Cuzz's Chorus (which -may be found in the _Little Pretty Play Thing_, published by Mr. -NEWBERY) and to the same Tune to which it is there set. - -After this, Little _Two-Shoes_ taught her to spell Words of one -Syllable, and she soon set up Pear, Plumb. Top, Ball, Pin, Puss, Dog, -Hog, Fawn, Buck, Doe, Lamb, Sheep, Ram, Cow, Bull, Cock, Hen, and many -more. - -The next Place we came to was _Gaffer Cook's_ Cottage; there you -see it before you. - -[Illustration] - -Here a number of poor Children were met to learn; who all came round -Little _Margery_ at once; and, having pulled out her Letters, she -asked the little Boy next her, what he had for Dinner? Who answered, -_Bread_. (the poor Children in many Places live very hard) Well -then, says she, set the first Letter. He put up the Letter B, to which -the next added r, and the next e, the next a, the next d, and it stood -thus, _Bread_. - -And what had you _Polly Comb_ for your Dinner? _Apple-pye_ -answered the little Girl: Upon which the next in Turn set up a great -A, the two next a p each, and so on till the two Words Apple and Pye -were united and stood thus, _Apple-pye_. - -The next had _Potatoes_, the next _Beef and Turnip_ which -were spelt with many others, till the Game of Spelling was finished. -She then set them another Task, and we proceeded. - -The next Place we came to was Farmer _Thompson's_, where there -were a great many little ones waiting for her. - -So little Mrs. _Goody Two-Shoes_, says one of them, where have -you been so long? I have been teaching, says she, longer than I -intended, and am afraid I am come too soon for you now. No, but indeed -you are not, replied the other; for I have got my Lesson, and so has -_Sally Dawson_, and so has _Harry Wilson_, and so we have -all; and they capered about as if they were overjoyed to see her. Why -then, says she, you are all very good, and GOD Almighty will love you; -so let us begin our Lessons. They all huddled round her, and though at -the other Place they were employed about Words and Syllables, here we -had People of much greater Understanding who dealt only in Sentences. - -The Letters being brought upon the Table, one of the little ones set -up the following Sentence. - -_The Lord have Mercy upon me, and grant that I may be always good, -and say my Prayers, and love the Lord my God with all my Heart, with -all my Soul, and with all my Strength; and honour the King, and all -good Men in Authority under him._ - -Then the next took the Letters, and composed this Sentence. - -_Lord have Mercy upon me, and grant that I may love my Neighbour as -myself, and do unto all Men as I would have them do unto me, and tell -no Lies; but be honest and just in all my Dealings._ - -The third composed the following Sentence. - -_The Lord have Mercy upon me, and grant that I may honour my Father -and Mother, and love my Brothers and Sisters, Relations and Friends, -and all my Playmates, and every Body, and endeavour to make them -happy._ - -The fourth composed the following. - -_I pray_ GOD _to bless this whole Company, and all our Friends, -and all our Enemies._ - -To this last _Polly Sullen_ objected, and said, truly, she did -not know why she should pray for her Enemies? Not pray for your -Enemies, says Little _Margery_; yes, you must, you are no -Christian, if you don't forgive your Enemies, and do Good for Evil. -_Polly_ still pouted; upon which Little _Margery_ said, -though she was poor, and obliged to lie in a Barn, she would not keep -Company with such a naughty, proud, perverse Girl as _Polly_; and -was going away; however the Difference was made up, and she set them -to compose the following - - LESSONS - - For the CONDUCT of LIFE. - - LESSON I. - - He that will thrive, - Must rise by Five. - He that hath thriv'n, - May lie till Seven. - Truth may be blam'd, - But cannot be sham'd. - Tell me with whom you go; - And I'll tell what you do. - A Friend in your Need, - Is a Friend indeed. - They ne'er can be wise, - Who good Counsel despise. - - LESSON II. - - A wise Head makes a close Mouth. - Don't burn your Lips with another Man's Broth. - Wit is Folly, unless a wise Man hath the keeping of it. - Use soft Words and hard Arguments. - Honey catches more Flies than Vinegar. - To forget a Wrong is the best Revenge. - Patience is a Plaister for all Sores. - Where Pride goes, Shame will follow. - When Vice enters the Room, Vengeance is near the Door. - Industry is Fortune's right Hand, and Frugality her left. - Make much of Three-pence, or you ne'er will be worth a Groat. - - LESSON III. - - A Lie stands upon one Leg, but Truth upon two. - When a Man talks much, believe but half what he says. - Fair Words butter no Parsnips. - Bad Company poisons the Mind. - A covetous Man is never satisfied. - Abundance, like Want, ruins many. - Contentment is the best Fortune. - A contented Mind is a continual Feast. - - A LESSON in Religion. - - Love GOD, for he is good. - Fear GOD, for he is just. - Pray to GOD, for all good Things come from him. - Praise GOD, for great is his Mercy towards us, and wonderful - are all his Works. - Those who strive to be good, have GOD on their Side. - Those who have GOD for their Friend, shall want nothing. - Confess your Sins to GOD, and if you repent he will forgive you. - Remember that all you do, is done in the Presence of GOD. - The Time will come, my Friends, when we must give - Account to GOD, how we on Earth did live. - - A Moral LESSON. - - A good Boy will make a good Man. - Honour your Parents, and the World will honour you. - Love your Friends, and your Friends will love you. - He that swims in Sin, will sink in Sorrow. - Learn to live, as you would wish to die. - As you expect all Men should deal by you: - So deal by them, and give each Man his Due. - -As we were returning Home, we saw a Gentleman, who was very ill, -sitting under a shady Tree at the Corner of his Rookery. Though ill, -he began to joke with Little _Margery_, and said, laughingly, so, -_Goody Two-Shoes_, they tell me you are a cunning little Baggage; -pray, can you tell me what I shall do to get well? Yes, Sir, says she, -go to Bed when your Rooks do. You see they are going to Rest already: - -[Illustration] - -Do you so likewise, and get up with them in the morning; earn, as they -do, every Day what you eat, and eat and drink no more than you earn; -and you'll get Health and keep it. What should induce the Rooks to -frequent Gentlemens Houses only, but to tell them how to lead a -prudent Life? They never build over Cottages or Farm-houses, because -they see, that these People know how to live without their Admonition. - - _Thus Health and Wit you may improve, - Taught by the Tenants of the Grove._ - -The Gentleman laughing gave _Margery_ Sixpence; and told her she -was a sensible Hussey. - - - - - CHAP. VI. - - _How the whole Parish was frighted._ - - -Who does not know Lady _Ducklington_, or who does not know that -she was buried at this Parish Church? - -[Illustration] - -Well, I never saw so grand a Funeral in all my Life; but the Money -they squandered away, would have been better laid out in little Books -for Children, or in Meat, Drink, and Cloaths for the Poor. - -This if a fine Hearse indeed, and the nodding Plumes on the Horses -look very grand; but what End does that answer, otherwise than to -display the Pride of the Living, or the Vanity of the Dead. Fie upon -such Folly, say I, and Heaven grant that those who want more Sense may -have it. - -[Illustration] - -But all the Country round came to see the Burying, and it was late -before the Corpse was interred. After which, in the Night, or rather -about Four o'Clock in the Morning, the Bells were heard to jingle in -the Steeple, which frightened the People prodigiously, who all thought -it was Lady _Ducklington_'s Ghost dancing among the Bell-ropes. -The People flocked to _Will Dobbins_ the Clerk, and wanted him to -go and see what it was; but _William_ said, he was sure it was a -Ghost, and that he would not offer to open the Door. At length Mr. -_Long_ the Rector, hearing such an Uproar in the Village, went to -the Clerk, to know why he did not go into the Church; and see who was -there. I go, Sir, says _William_, why the Ghost would frighten me -out of my Wits.--Mrs. _Dobbins_ too cried, and laying hold of her -Husband said, he should not be eat up by the Ghost. A Ghost, you -Blockheads, says Mr. _Long_ in a Pet, did either of you ever see -a Ghost, or know any Body that did? Yes, says the Clerk, my Father did -once in the Shape of a Windmill, and it walked all round the Church in -a white Sheet, with Jack Boots on, and had a Gun by its Side instead -of a Sword. A fine Picture of a Ghost truly, says Mr. _Long_, -give me the Key of the Church, you Monkey; for I tell you there is no -such Thing now, whatever may have been formerly.--Then taking the Key, -he went to the Church, all the people following him. As soon as he had -opened the Door, what Sort of a Ghost do ye think appeared? Why Little -_Two-Shoes_, who being weary, had fallen asleep in one of the -Pews during the Funeral Service, and was shut in all Night. She -immediately asked Mr. _Long_'s Pardon for the Trouble she had -given him, told him, she had been locked into the Church, and said, -she should not have rung the Bells, but that she was very cold, and -hearing Farmer _Boult_'s Man go whistling by with his Horses, she -was in Hopes he would have went to the Clerk for the Key to let her -out. - -[Illustration] - - - - - CHAP. VII. - - _Containing an Account of all the Spirits, - or Ghosts, she saw in the Church._ - - -The People were ashamed to ask Little _Madge_ any Questions -before Mr. _Long_, but as soon as he was gone, they all got round -her to satisfy their Curiousity, and desired she would give them a -particular Account of all that she had heard and seen. - - Her TALE. - -I went to the Church, said she, as most of you did last Night, to see -the Burying, and being very weary, I sate me down in Mr. -_Jones_'s Pew, and fell fast asleep. At Eleven of the Clock I -awoke; which I believe was in some measure occasioned by the Clock's -striking, for I heard it. I started up, and could not at first tell -where I was; but after some Time I recollected the Funeral, and soon -found that I was shut in the Church. It was dismal dark, and I could -see nothing; but while I was standing in the Pew, something jumped up -upon me behind, and laid, as I thought, its Hands over my -Shoulders.--I own, I was a little afraid at first; however, I -considered that I had always been constant at Prayers and at Church, -and that I had done nobody any Harm, but had endeavoured to do what -Good I could; and then, thought I, what have I to fear? yet I kneeled -down to say my Prayers. As soon as I was on my Knees something very -cold, as cold as Marble, ay, as cold as Ice, touched my Neck, which -made me start; however, I continued my Prayers, and having begged -Protection from Almighty GOD, I found my Spirits come, and I was -sensible that I had nothing to fear; for GOD Almighty protects not -only all those who are good, but also all those who endeavour to be -good.--Nothing can withstand the Power, and exceed the Goodness of GOD -Almighty. Armed with the Confidence of his Protection, I walked down -the Church Isle, when I heard something, pit pat, pit pat, pit pat, -come after me, and something touched my Hand, which seemed as cold as -a Marble Monument. I could not think what this was, yet I knew it -could not hurt me, and therefore I made myself easy, but being very -cold, and the Church being paved with Stone, which was very damp, I -felt my Way as well as I could to the Pulpit, in doing which something -brushed by me, and almost threw me down. However I was not frightened, -for I knew, that GOD Almighty would suffer nothing to hurt me. - -At last, I found out the Pulpit, and having shut too the Door, I laid -me down on the Mat and Cushion to sleep; when something thrust and -pulled the Door, as I thought for Admittance, which prevented my going -to sleep. At last it cries, _Bow, wow, wow_; and I concluded it -must be Mr. _Saunderson_'s Dog, which had followed me from their -House to Church, so I opened the Door, and called _Snip, Snip_, -and the Dog jumped up upon me immediately. After this _Snip_ and -I lay down together, and had a most comfortable Nap; for when I awoke -again it was almost light. I then walked up and down all the Isles of -the Church to keep myself warm; and though I went into the Vault, and -trod on Lady _Ducklington's_ Coffin, I saw no Ghost, and I -believe it was owing to the Reason Mr. _Long_ has given you, -namely, that there is no such Thing to be seen. As to my Part, I would -as soon lie all Night in the Church as in any other Place; and I am -sure that any little Boy or Girl, who is good, and loves GOD Almighty, -and keeps his Commandments, may as safely lie in the Church, or the -Church-yard, as any where else, if they take Care not to get Cold; for -I am sure there are no Ghosts, either to hurt, or to frighten them; -though any one possessed of Fear might have taken Neighbour -_Saunderson_'s Dog with his cold Nose for a Ghost; and if they -had not been undeceived, as I was, would never have thought otherwise. -All the Company acknowledged the Justness of the Observation, and -thanked Little _Two-Shoes_ for her Advice. - - REFLECTION. - -After this, my dear Children, I hope you will not believe any foolish -Stories that ignorant, weak, or designing People may tell you about -_Ghosts_; for the Tales of _Ghosts_, _Witches_, and _Fairies_, are the -Frolicks of a distempered Brain. No wise Man ever saw either of them. -Little _Margery_ you see was not afraid; no, she had _good Sense_, -and a _good Conscience_, which is a Cure for all these imaginary -Evils. - - - - - CHAP. VIII. - - _Of something which happened to Little_ Two-Shoes_ - in a Barn, more dreadful than the Ghost in the Church; - and how she returned Good for Evil to her Enemy Sir_ Timothy. - - -Some Days after this a more dreadful Accident befel Little _Madge_. -She happened to be coming late from teaching, when it rained, -thundered, and lightened, and therefore she took Shelter in a Farmer's -Barn at a Distance from the Village. Soon after, the Tempest drove in -four Thieves, who, not seeing such a little creep-mouse Girl as -_Two-Shoes_, lay down on the Hay next to her, and began to talk over -their Exploits, and to settle Plans for future Robberies. Little -_Margery_ on hearing them, covered herself with Straw. To be sure she -was sadly frighted, but her good Sense taught her, that the only -Security she had was in keeping herself concealed; therefore she laid -very still, and breathed very softly. About Four o'Clock these wicked -People came to a Resolution to break both Sir _William Dove's_ House, -and Sir _Timothy Gripe's_, and by Force of Arms to carry off all their -Money, Plate and Jewels; but as it was thought then too late, they -agreed to defer it till the next Night. After laying this Scheme they -all set out upon their Pranks, which greatly rejoiced _Margery_, as it -would any other little Girl in her Situation. Early in the Morning she -went to Sir _William_, and told him the whole of their Conversation. -Upon which, he asked her Name, gave her Something, and bid her call at -his House the Day following. She also went to Sir _Timothy_ -notwithstanding standing he had used her so ill; for she knew it was -her Duty to _do Good for Evil_. As soon as he was informed who she -was, he took no Notice of her; upon which she desired to speak to Lady -_Gripe_; and having informed her Ladyship of the Affair, she went her -Way. This Lady had more Sense than her Husband, which indeed is not a -singular Case; for instead of despising Little _Margery_ and her -Information, she privately set People to guard the House. The Robbers -divided themselves, and went about the Time mentioned to both Houses, -and were surprized by the Guards, and taken. Upon examining these -Wretches, one of which turned Evidence, both Sir _William_ and Sir -_Timothy_ found that they owed their Lives to the Discovery made by -Little _Margery_, and the first took great Notice of her, and would no -longer let her lie in a Barn; but Sir _Timothy_ only said, that he was -ashamed to owe his Life to the Daughter of one who was his Enemy; so -true it is, _that a proud Man seldom forgives those he has injured_. - -[Illustration] - - - - - CHAP. IX. - - _How Little_ Margery _was made - Principal of a Country College._ - - -Mrs. _Williams_, of whom I have given a particular Account in my _New -Year's Gift_, and who kept a College for instructing little Gentlemen -and Ladies in the Science of A, B, C, was at this Time very old and -infirm, and wanted to decline that important Trust. This being told to -Sir _William Dove_, who lived in the Parish, he sent for Mrs. -_Williams_, and desired she would examine Little _Two-Shoes_, and see -whether she was qualified for the Office.----This was done, and Mrs. -_Williams_ made the following Report in her Favour, namely, _that -Little_ Margery _was the best Scholar, and had the best Head, and the -best Heart of any one she had examined_. All the Country had a great -Opinion of Mrs. _Williams_, and this Character gave them also a great -Opinion of Mrs. _Margery_; for so we must now call her. - -This Mrs. _Margery_ thought the happiest Period of her Life; but -more Happiness was in Store for her. GOD Almighty heaps up Blessings -for all those who love him, and though for a Time he may suffer them -to be poor and distressed, and hide his good Purposes from human -Sight, yet in the End they are generally crowned with Happiness -here, and no one can doubt of their being so hereafter. - -On this Occasion the following Hymn, or rather a Translation of the -twenty-third Psalm, is said to have been written, and was soon after -published in the _Spectator_. - - I. - - The Lord my Pasture shall prepare, - And feed me with a Shepherd's Care: - His Presence shall my Wants supply, - And guard me with a watchful Eye; - My Noon-day Walks he shall attend, - And all my Midnight Hours defend. - - II. - - When in the sultry Glebe I faint, - Or on the thirsty Mountain pant; - To fertile Vales and dewy Meads, - My weary wand'ring Steps he leads; - Where peaceful Rivers, soft and slow, - Amid the verdant Landskip flow. - - III. - - Tho' in the Paths of Death I tread, - With gloomy Horrors overspread, - My stedfast Heart shall fear no ill, - For thou, O Lord, art with me still; - Thy friendly Crook shall give me Aid, - And guide me thro' the dreadful Shade. - - IV. - - Tho' in a bare and rugged Way, - Thro' devious lonely Wilds I stray, - Thy Bounty shall my Pains beguile: - The barren Wilderness shall smile, - With sudden Greens & herbage crown'd, - And Streams shall murmur all around. - -Here ends the History of Little _Two Shoes_. Those who would know -how she behaved after she came to be Mrs. _Margery Two-Shoes_ -must read the Second Part of this Work, in which an Account of the -Remainder of her Life, her Marriage, and Death are set forth at large, -according to Act of Parliament. - - - - - ==================== - - - The Renowned - - HISTORY - - OF - - Mrs. MARGERY TWO-SHOES. - - - -------------------- - PART II. - -------------------- - - - INTRODUCTION. - - -In the first Part of this Work, the young Student has read, and I hope -with Pleasure and Improvement, the History of this Lady, while she was -known and distinguished by the Name of _Little Two-Shoes_; we are -now come to a Period of her Life when that Name was discarded, and a -more eminent one bestowed upon her, I mean I mean that of Mrs. -_Margery Two-Shoes_: For as she was now President of the A, B, C -College, it became necessary to exalt her in Title as well as in -Place. - - -No sooner was she settled in this Office, but she laid every possible -Scheme to promote the Welfare and Happiness of all her Neighbours, and -especially of the Little Ones, in whom she took great Delight, and all -those whose Parents could not afford to pay for their Education, she -taught for nothing, but the Pleasure she had in their Company, for you -are to observe, that they were very good, or were soon made so by her -good Management. - - - - - CHAP. I. - - _Of her School, her Ushers, or Assistants, - and her Manner of Teaching._ - - -We have already informed the Reader, that the School where she taught, -was that which was before kept by Mrs. _Williams_, whose -Character you may find in my _New Year's Gift_. The Room was -large, and as she knew, that Nature intended Children should be always -in Action, she placed her different Letters, or Alphabets, all round -the School, so that every one was obliged to get up to fetch a Letter, -or to spell a Word, when it came to their Turn; which not only kept -them in Health, but fixed the Letters and Points firmly in their -Minds. - -She had the following Assistants or Ushers to help her, and I will -tell you how she came by them. Mrs. _Margery_, you must know, was -very humane and compassionate; and her Tenderness extended not only to -all Mankind, but even to all Animals that were not noxious; as your's -ought to do, if you would be happy here, and go to Heaven hereafter. -These are GOD Almighty's Creatures as well as we. He made both them -and us; and for wise Purposes, best known to himself, placed them in -this World to live among us; so that they are our fellow Tenants of -the Globe. How then can People dare to torture and wantonly destroy -GOD Almighty's Creatures? They as well as you are capable of feeling -Pain, and of receiving Pleasure, and how can you, who want to be made -happy yourself, delight in making your fellow Creatures miserable? Do -you think the poor Birds, whose Nest and young ones that wicked Boy -_Dick Wilson_ ran away with Yesterday, do not feel as much Pain, -as your Father and Mother would have felt, had any one pulled down -their House and ran away with you? To be sure they do. Mrs. -_Two-Shoes_ used to speak of those Things, and of naughty Boys -throwing at Cocks, torturing Flies, and whipping Horses and Dogs, with -Tears in her Eyes, and would never suffer any one to come to her -School who did so. - -One Day, as she was going through the next Village, she met with some -wicked Boys who had got a young Raven, which they were going to throw -at, she wanted to get the poor Creature out of their cruel Hands, and -therefore gave them a Penny for him, and brought him home. She called -his Name _Ralph_, and a fine Bird he is. Do look at him and remember -what _Solomon_ says, _The Eye that despiseth his Father, and regardeth -not the Distress of his Mother, the Ravens of the Valley shall peck it -out, and the young Eagles eat it._ Now this Bird she taught to speak, -to spell and to read; and as he was particularly fond of playing with -the large Letters, the Children used to call this _Ralph_'a Alphabet. - - A B C D E F G H I J K L M - N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z. - -He always sat at her Elbow, as you see in the first Picture, and when -any of the Children were wrong, she used to call out, _Put them -right Ralph_, and a fine bird he is. Do look at him. - -[Illustration] - -Some Days after she had met with the Raven, as she was walking in the -Fields, she saw some naughty Boys, who had taken a Pidgeon, and tied a -String to its Leg, in order to let it fly, and draw it back again when -they pleased; and by this Means they tortured the poor Animal with the -Hopes of Liberty and repeated Disappointment. This Pidgeon she also -bought, and taught him how to spell and read, though not to talk, and -he performed all those extraordinary Things which are recorded of the -famous Bird, that was some Time since advertised in the -_Haymarket_, and visited by most of the great People in the -Kingdom. This Pidgeon was a very pretty Fellow, and she called him -_Tom_. See here he is. - -[Illustration] - -And as the Raven _Ralph_ was fond of the large Letters, -_Tom_ the Pidgeon took Care of the small ones, of which he -composed this Alphabet. - - a b c d e f g h i j k l m - n o p q r s t u v w x y z. - -The Neighbours knowing that Mrs. _Two Shoes_ was very good, as to -be sure nobody was better, made her a Present of a little Sky-lark, -and a fine Bird he is. - -[Illustration] - -Now as many People, even at that Time had learned to lie in Bed long -in the Morning, she thought the Lark might be of Use to her and her -Pupils, and tell them when to get up. - -_For be that is fond of his Bed, and lays 'till Noon, lives but half -his Days, the rest being lost in Sleep, which is a Kind of Death_. - -Some Time after this a poor Lamb had lost its Dam, and the Farmer -being about to kill it, she bought it of him, and brought it home with -her to play with the Children, and teach them when to go to Bed; for -it was a Rule with the wise Men of that Age (and a very good one, let -me tell you) to - - _Rise with the Lark, and lie down with the Lamb._ - -This Lamb she called _Will_, and a pretty Fellow he is; do, look -at him. - -[Illustration] - -No sooner was _Tippy_ the Lark and _Will_ the Ba-lamb -brought into the School, but that sensible Rogue _Ralph_, the -Raven, composed the following Verse, which every little good Boy and -Girl should get by Heart. - - _Early to Bed, and early to rise; - Is the Way to be healthy, and wealthy, and wise_. - -A sly Rogue; but it is true enough; for those who do not go to Bed -early cannot rise early; and those who do not rise early cannot do -much Business. Pray, let this be told at the Court, and to People who -have Routs and Rackets. - -Soon after this, a Present was made to Mrs. _Margery_ of little -Dog _Jumper_, and a pretty Dog he is. Pray, look at him. - -[Illustration] - -_Jumper, Jumper, Jumper!_ He is always in a good Humour, and -playing and jumping about, and therefore he was called _Jumper_. -The Place assigned for _Jumper_ was that of keeping the Door, so -that he may be called the Porter of the College, for he would let -nobody go out, or any one come in, without the Leave of his Mistress. -See how he sits, a saucy Rogue. - -_Billy_ the Ba-lamb was a chearful Fellow, and all the Children -were fond of him, wherefore Mrs. _Two-Shoes_ made it a Rule, that -those who behaved best should have _Will_ home with them at Night -to carry their Satchel or Basket at his Back, and bring it in the -Morning. See what a fine Fellow he is, and how he trudges along. - - - - - CHAP. II. - - _A Scene of Distress; in the School_. - - -It happened one Day, when Mrs. _Two-Shoes_ was diverting the -Children after Dinner, as she usually did with some innocent Games, or -entertaining and instructive Stories, that a Man arrived with the -melancholy News of _Sally Jones's_ Father being thrown from his -Horse, and thought past all Recovery; nay, the Messenger said, that he -was seemingly dying, when he came away. Poor _Sally_ was greatly -distressed, as indeed were all the School, for she dearly loved her -Father, and Mrs. _Two-Shoes_, and all the Children dearly loved -her. It is generally said, that we never know the real Value of our -Parents or Friends till we have lost them; but poor _Sally_ felt -this by Affection, and her Mistress knew it by Experience. All the -School were in Tears, and the Messenger was obliged to return; but -before he went, Mrs. _Two-Shoes_, unknown to the Children, -ordered _Tom_ Pidgeon to go home with the Man, and bring a Letter -to inform her how Mr. _Jones_ did. They set out together, and the -Pidgeon rode on the Man's Head, (as you see here) for the Man was able -to carry the Pidgeon, though the Pidgeon was not able to carry the -Man, if he had, they would have been there much sooner, for _Tom_ -Pidgeon was _very good_, and never staid on an Errand. - -[Illustration] - -Soon after the Man was gone the Pidgeon was lost, and the Concern the -Children were under for Mr. _Jones_ and little _Sally_ was -in some Measure diverted, and Part of their Attention turned after -_Tom_, who was a great Favourite, and consequently much bewailed. -Mrs. _Margery_, who knew the great Use and Necessity of teaching -Children to submit chearfully to the Will of Providence, bid them wipe -away their Tears, and then kissing _Sally_, you must be a good -Girl, says she, and depend upon GOD Almighty for his Blessing and -Protection; for _he is a Father to the Fatherless, and defendeth all -those who put their Trust in him_. She then told them a Story, -which I shall relate in as few Words as possible. - - - _The History of Mr._ Lovewell, _Father - to Lady_ Lucy. - -Mr. _Lovewell_ was born at _Bath_, and apprenticed to a -laborious Trade in _London_, which being too hard for him, he -parted with his Master by Consent, and hired himself as a common -Servant to a Merchant in the City. Here he spent his leisure Hours not -as Servants too frequently do, in Drinking and Schemes of Pleasure, -but in improving his Mind; and among other Acquirements, he made -himself a complete Master of Accompts. His Sobriety, Honesty, and the -Regard he paid to his Master's Interest, greatly recommended him in -the whole Family, and he had several Offices of Trust committed to his -Charge, in which he acquitted himself so well, that the Merchant -removed him from the Stable into the Counting-house. - -Here he soon made himself Master of the Business, and became so useful -to the Merchant, that in regard to his faithful Services, and the -Affection he had for him, he married him to his own Niece, a prudent -agreeable young Lady; and gave him a Share in the Business. See what -Honesty and Industry will do for us. Half the great Men in -_London_, I am told, have made themselves by this Means, and who -would but be honest and industrious, when it is so much our Interest -and our Duty. - -After some Years the Merchant died, and left Mr. _Lovewell_ -possessed of many fine Ships at Sea, and much Money, and he was happy -in a Wife, who had brought him a Son and two Daughters, all dutiful -and obedient. The Treasures and good Things, however, of this Life are -so uncertain, that a Man can never be happy, unless he lays the -Foundation for it in his own Mind. So true is that Copy in our Writing -Books, which tells us, that _a contented Mind is a continual -Feast_. - -After some Years successful Trade, he thought his Circumstances -sufficient to insure his own Ships, or, in other Words, to send his -Ships and Goods to Sea without being insured by others, as is -customary among Merchants; when, unfortunately for him, four of them -richly laden were lost at Sea. This he supported with becoming -Resolution; but the next Mail brought him Advice, that nine others -were taken by the _French_, with whom we were then at War; and -this, together with the Failure of three foreign Merchants whom he had -trusted, compleated his Ruin. He was then obliged to call his -Creditors together, who took his Effects, and being angry with him for -the imprudent Step of not insuring his Ships, left him destitute of -all Subsistence. Nor did the Flatterers of his Fortune, those who had -lived by his Bounty when in his Prosperity, pay the least Regard -either to him or his Family. So true is another Copy, that you will -find in your Writing Book, which says, _Misfortune tries our -Friends_. All these Slights of his pretended Friends, and the ill -Usage of his Creditors, both he and his Family bore with Christian -Fortitude; but other Calamities fell upon him, which he felt more -sensibly. - -In his Distress, one of his Relations, who lived at _Florence_, -offered to take his Son; and another, who lived at _Barbadoes_, -sent for one of his Daughters. The Ship which his Son sailed in was -cast away, and all the Crew supposed to be lost; and the Ship, in -which his Daughter went a Passenger, was taken by Pyrates, and one -Post brought the miserable Father an Account of the Loss of his two -Children. This was the severest Stroke of all: It made him compleatly -wretched, and he knew it must have a dreadful Effect on his Wife and -Daughter; he therefore endeavoured to conceal it from them. But the -perpetual Anxiety he was in, together with the Loss of his Appetite -and Want of Rest, soon alarmed his Wife. She found something was -labouring in his Breast, which was concealed from her; and one Night -being disturbed in a Dream, with what was ever in his Thoughts, and -calling out upon his dear Children; she awoke him, and insisted upon -knowing the Cause of his Inquietude. _Nothing, my Dear, nothing,_ -says he, _The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be -the Name of the Lord._ This was sufficient to alarm the poor Woman; -she lay till his Spirits were composed, and as she thought asleep, -then stealing out of Bed, got the Keys and opened his Bureau, where -she found the fatal Account. In the Height of her Distractions, she -flew to her Daughter's Room, and waking her with her Shrieks, put the -Letters into her Hands. The young Lady, unable to support this Load of -Misery, fell into a Fit, from which it was thought she never could -have been recovered. However, at last she revived; but the Shock was -so great, that it entirely deprived her of her Speech. - -Thus loaded with Misery, and unable to bear the Slights and Disdain of -those who had formerly professed themselves Friends, this unhappy Family -retired into a Country, where they were unknown, in order to hide -themselves from the World; when, to support their Independency, the -Father laboured as well as he could at Husbandry, and the Mother and -Daughter sometimes got spinning and knitting Work, to help to furnish -the Means of Subsistence; which however was so precarious and uncertain, -that they often, for many Weeks together, lived on nothing but Cabbage -and Bread boiled in Water. But God never forsaketh the Righteous, nor -suffereth those to perish who put their Trust in him. At this Time a -Lady, who was just come to England, sent to take a pleasant Seat ready -furnished in that Neighbourhood, and the Person who was employed for the -Purpose, was ordered to deliver a Bank Note of an hundred Pounds to Mr. -_Lovewell_, another hundred to his Wife, and fifty to the Daughter, -desiring them to take Possession of the House, and get it well aired -against she came down, which would be in two or three Days at most. -This, to People who were almost starving, was a sweet and seasonable -Relief, and they were all sollicitous to know their Benefactress, but of -that the Messenger himself was too ignorant to inform them. However, she -came down sooner than was expected, and with Tears embraced them again -and again: After which she told the Father and Mother she had heard from -their Daughter, who was her Acquaintance, and that she was well and on -her Return to England. This was the agreeable Subject of their -Conversation till after Dinner, when drinking their Healths, she again -with Tears saluted them, and falling upon her Knees asked their -Blessings. - -[Illustration] - -Tis impossible to express the mutual Joy which this occasioned. Their -Conversation was made up of the most endearing Expressions, -intermingled with Tears and Caresses. Their Torrent of Joy, however, -was for a Moment interrupted, by a Chariot which stopped at the Gate, -and which brought as they thought a very unseasonable Visitor, and -therefore she sent to be excused from seeing Company. - -[Illustration] - -But this had no Effect, for a Gentleman richly dressed jumped out of -the Chariot, and pursuing the Servant into the Parlour saluted them -round, who were all astonished at his Behaviour. But when the Tears -trickled from his Cheeks, the Daughter, who had been some Years dumb, -immediately cried out, _my Brother! my Brother! my Brother!_ and -from that Instant recovered her Speech. The mutual Joy which this -occasioned, is better felt than expressed. Those who have proper -Sentiments of Humanity, Gratitude, and filial Piety will rejoice at -the Event, and those who have a proper Idea of the Goodness of God, -and his gracious Providence, will from this, as well as other -Instances of his Goodness and Mercy, glorify his holy Name, and -magnify his Wisdom and Power, who is a Shield to the Righteous, and -defendeth all those who put their Trust in him. - -As you, my dear Children, may be sollicitous to know how this happy -Event was brought about, I must inform you, that Mr. _Lovewell_'s Son, -when the Ship foundered, had with some others got into the long Boat, -and was taken up by a Ship at Sea, and carried to the East Indies, -where in a little Time he made a large Fortune; and the Pirates who -took his Daughter, attempted to rob her of her Chastity; but finding -her Inflexible, and determined to die rather than to submit, some of -them behaved to her in a very cruel Manner; but others, who had more -Honour and Generosity, became her Defenders; upon which a Quarrel -arose between them, and the Captain, who was the worst of the Gang, -being killed, the rest of the Crew carried the Ship into a Port of the -_Manilla_ Islands, belonging to the _Spaniards_; where, when her Story -was known, she was treated with great Respect, and courted by a young -Gentleman, who was taken ill of a Fever, and died before the Marriage -was agreed on, but left her his whole Fortune. - -You see, my dear _Sally_, how wonderfully these People were -preserved, and made happy after such extreme Distress; we are -therefore never to despair, even under the greatest Misfortunes, for -GOD Almighty is All-powerful and can deliver us at any Time. Remember -_Job_, but I think you have not read so far, take the Bible, -_Billy Jones_, and read the History of that good and patient Man. -At this Instant something was heard to slap at the Window, _Wow, -wow, wow_, says Jumper, and attempted to leap up and open the Door, -at which the Children were surprized; but Mrs. _Margery_ knowing -what it was, opened the Casement, as _Noah_ did the Window of the -Ark, and drew in _Tom_ Pidgeon with a Letter, and see here he is. - -[Illustration] - -As soon as he was placed on the Table, he walked up to little -_Sally_, and dropping the Letter, cried, _Co, Co, Coo_, as -much as to say, _there read it_. Now this poor Pidgeon had -travelled fifty Miles in about an Hour, to bring _Sally_ this -Letter, and who would destroy such pretty Creatures.--But let us read -the Letter. - -_My dear_ Sally, - -GOD Almighty has been very merciful, and restored your Pappa to us -again, who is now so well as to be able to sit up. I hear you are a -good Girl, my Dear, and I hope you will never forget to praise the -Lord for this his great Goodness and Mercy to us--What a sad Thing it -would have been if your Father had died, and left both you and me, and -little _Tommy_ in Distress, and without a Friend: Your Father -sends his Blessing with mine--Be good, my dear Child, and God Almighty -will also bless you, whose Blessing is above all Things. - -_I am, my Dear Sally_, - -_Your ever affectionate Mother,_ - -MARTHA JONES. - - - - - CHAP. III. - - _Of the amazing Sagacity and Instincts - of a little Dog_. - - -Soon after this, a dreadful Accident happened in the School. It was on -a _Thursday_ Morning, I very well remember, when the Children -having learned their Lessons soon, she had given them Leave to play, -and they were all running about the School, and diverting themselves -with the Birds and the Lamb; at this Time the Dog, all of a sudden, -laid hold of his Mistress's Apron, and endeavoured to pull her out of -the School. She was at first surprized, however, she followed him to -see what he intended. No sooner had he led her into the Garden, but he -ran back, and pulled out one of the Children in the same manner; upon -which she ordered them all to leave the School immediately, and they -had not been out five Minutes, before the Top of the House fell in. -What a miraculous Deliverance was here! How gracious! How good was God -Almighty, to save all these Children from Destruction, and to make Use -of such an Instrument, as a little sagacious Animal to accomplish his -Divine Will. I should have observed, that as soon as they were all in -the Garden, the Dog came leaping round them to express his Joy, and -when the House was fallen, laid himself down quietly by his Mistress. - -Some of the Neighbours, who saw the School fall, and who were in great -Pain for _Margery_ and the little ones, soon spread the News -through the Village, and all the Parents, terrified for their -Children, came crowding in Abundance; they had, however, the -Satisfaction to find them all safe, and upon their Knees, with their -Mistress, giving God thanks for their happy Deliverance. - - ADVICE _from the_ MAN _in the_ MOON. - -_Jumper, Jumper, Jumper_, what a pretty Dog he is, and how -sensible? Had Mankind half the Sagacity of _Jumper_, they would -guard against Accidents of this Sort, by having a public Survey, -occasionally made of all the Houses in every Parish (especially of -those, which are old and decayed) and not suffer them to remain in a -crazy State, 'till they fall down on the Heads of the poor -Inhabitants, and crush them to Death. Why, it was but Yesterday, that -a whole House fell down in _Grace-church-street_, and another in -_Queen's-street_, and an hundred more are to tumble, before this -Time twelve Months; so Friends, take Care of yourselves, and tell the -Legislature, they ought to take Care for you. How can you be so -careless? Most of your Evils arise from Carelesness and Extravagance, -and yet you excuse yourselves, and lay the Fault upon Fortune. Fortune -is a Fool, and you are a Blockhead, if you put it in her Power to play -Tricks with you. - -_Yours_, - -_The_ MAN _in the_ MOON. - -You are not to wonder, my dear Reader, that this little Dog should -have more Sense than you, or your Father, or your Grandfather. - -Though God Almighty has made Man the Lord of the Creation, and endowed -him with Reason, yet in many Respects, he has been altogether as -bountiful to other Creatures of his forming. Some of the Senses of -other Animals are more acute than ours, as we find by daily -Experience. You know this little Bird, _sweet Jug, Jug, Jug_, -'tis a Nightingale. This little Creature, after she has entertained us -with her Songs all the Spring, and bred up her little ones, flies into -a foreign Country, and finds her Way over the Great Sea, without any -of the Instruments and Helps which Men are obliged to make Use of for -that Purpose. Was you as wise as the Nightingale, you might make all -the Sailors happy, and have twenty thousand Pounds for teaching them -the Longitude. - -[Illustration] - -You would not think _Ralph_ the Raven half so wise and so good as he -is, though you see him here reading his book. Yet when the Prophet -_Elijah_, was obliged to fly from _Ahab_ King of _Israel_, and hide -himself in a Cave, the Ravens, at the Command of God Almighty, fed him -every Day, and preserved his Life. - -_And the Word of the Lord came unto _Elijah_, saying, Hide -thyself by the Brook _Cherith_, that is before _Jordan_, and -I have commanded the Ravens to feed thee there. And the Ravens brought -him Bread and Flesh in the Morning, and Bread and Flesh in the -Evening, and he drank of the Brook,_ Kings, B.I.C. 17. - -And the pretty Pidgeon when the World was drowned, and he was confined -with _Noah_ in the Ark, was sent forth by him to see whether the -Waters were abated, _And he sent forth a Dove from him, to see if -the Waters were abated from off the Face of the Ground. And the Dove -came in to him in the Evening, and lo, in her Mouth was an Olive Leaf -plucked off: So_ Noah _knew that the Waters were abated from off -the Earth._ Gen. viii. 8. 11. - -As these, and other Animals, are so sensible and kind to us, we ought -to be tender and good to them, and not beat them about, and kill them, -and take away their young ones, as many wicked Boys do. Does not the -Horse and the Ass carry you and your burthens; don't the Ox plough -your Ground, the Cow give you Milk, the Sheep cloath your Back, the -Dog watch your House, the Goose find you in Quills to write with, the -Hen bring Eggs for your Custards and Puddings, and the Cock call you -up in the Morning, when you are lazy, and like to hurt yourselves by -laying too long in Bed? If so, how can you be so cruel to them, and -abuse God Almighty's good Creatures? Go, naughty Boy, go; be sorry for -what you have done, and do so no more, that God Almighty may forgive -you. _Amen_, say I, again and again. God will bless you, but not -unless you are merciful and good. - -The downfal of the School, was a great Misfortune to Mrs. -_Margery_; for she not only lost all her Books, but was destitute -of a Place to teach in; but Sir William _Dove_, being informed of -this, ordered the House to be built at his own Expence, and 'till that -could be done, Farmer _Grove_ was so kind, as to let her have his -large Hall to teach in. - -The House built by Sir _William_, had a Statue erected over the -Door of a Boy sliding on the Ice, and under it were these Lines, -written by Mrs. _Two-Shoes_, and engraved at her Expence. - -[Illustration] - - On SIN. A SIMILE. - - As a poor Urchin on the Ice, - When he has tumbl'd once or twice, - With cautious Step, and trembling goes, - The drop-stile Pendant on his Nose, - And trudges on to seek the Shore, - Resolv'd to trust the Ice no more: - But meeting with a daring Mate, - Who often us'd to slide and scate, - Again is into Danger led, - And falls again, and breaks his head. - So Youth when first they're drawn to sin, - And see the Danger they are in, - Would gladly quit the thorney Way, - And think it is unsafe to stay; - But meeting with their wicked Train, - Return with them to sin again: - With them the Paths of Vice explore; - With them are ruin'd ever more. - - - - - CHAP. IV. - - _What happened at Farmer Grove's; - and how she gratified him for the Use - of his Room_. - - -While at Mr. _Grove's_, which was in the Heart of the Village, -she not only taught the Children in the Day Time, but the Farmer's -Servants, and all the Neighbours, to read and write in the Evening; -and it was a constant Practice before they went away, to make them all -go to Prayers, and sing Psalms. By this Means, the People grew -extremely regular, his Servants were always at Home, instead of being -at the Ale-house, and he had more Work done than ever. This gave not -only Mr. _Grove_, but all the Neighbours, an high Opinion of her -good Sense and prudent Behaviour: And she was so much esteemed, that -most of the Differences in the Parish were left to her Decision; and -if a Man and Wife quarrelled (which sometimes happened in that Part of -the Kingdom) both Parties certainly came to her for Advice. Every Body -knows, that _Martha Wilson_ was a passionate scolding Jade, and -that _John_ her husband, was a surly ill-tempered Fellow. These -were one Day brought by the Neighbours for _Margery_ to talk to -them, when they fairly quarrelled before her, and were going to Blows; -but she stepping between them, thus addressed the Husband; -_John_, says she, you are a Man, and ought to have more Sense -than to fly in a Passion, at every Word that is said amiss by your -Wife; and _Martha_, says she, you ought to know your Duty better, -than to say any Thing to aggravate your Husband's Resentment. These -frequent Quarrels, arise from the Indulgence of your violent Passions; -for I know, you both love one another, notwithstanding what has passed -between you. Now, pray tell me _John_, and tell me _Martha_, -when you have had a Quarrel the over Night, are you not both sorry for -it the next Day? They both declared that they were: Why then, says -she, I'll tell you how to prevent this for the future, if you will -both promise to take my Advice. They both promised her. You know, says -she, that a small Spark will set Fire to Tinder, and that Tinder -properly placed will fire a House; an angry Word is with you as that -Spark, for you are both as touchy as Tinder, and very often make your -own House too hot to hold you. To prevent this, therefore, and to live -happily for the future, you must solemnly agree, that if one speaks an -angry Word, the other will not answer, 'till he or she has distinctly -called over all the Letters in the Alphabet, and the other not reply, -'till he has told twenty; by this Means your Passions will be stifled, -and Reason will have Time to take the Rule. - -This is the best Recipe that was ever given for a married Couple to -live in Peace: Though _John_ and his Wife frequently attempted to -quarrel afterwards, they never could get their Passions to any -considerable Height, for there was something so droll in thus carrying -on the Dispute, that before they got to the End of the Argument, they -saw the Absurdity of it, laughed, kissed, and were Friends. - -Just as Mrs. _Margery_ had settled this Difference between -_John_ and his Wife, the Children (who had been sent out to play, -while that Business was transacting) returned some in Tears, and -others very disconsolate, for the Loss of a little Dormouse they were -very fond of, and which was just dead. Mrs. _Margery_, who had -the Art of moralizing and drawing Instructions from every Accident, -took this Opportunity of reading them a Lecture on the Uncertainty of -Life, and the Necessity of being always prepared for Death. You should -get up in the Morning, says she, and to conduct yourselves, as if that -Day was to be your last, and lie down at Night, as if you never -expected to see this World any more. This may be done, says she, -without abating of your Chearfulness, for you are not to consider -Death as an Evil, but as a Convenience, as an useful Pilot, who is to -convey you to a Place of greater Happiness: Therefore, play my dear -Children, and be merry; but be innocent and good. The good Man sets -Death at Defiance, for his Darts are only dreadful to the Wicked. - -After this, she permitted the Children to bury the little Dormouse, -and desired one of them to write his Epitaph, and here it is. - -_Epitaph on a_ DORMOUSE, _really - written by a little_ BOY. - - I. - - In Paper Case, - Hard by this Place, -Dead a poor Dormouse lies; - And soon or late, - Summon'd by Fate, -Each Prince, each Monarch dies. - - II. - - Ye Sons of Verse, - While I rehearse, -Attend instructive Rhyme; - No Sins had _Dor_, - To answer for, -Repent of yours in Time. - - - - - CHAP. V. - - _The whole History of the Considering Cap, set forth - at large for the Benefit of all whom it may concern_. - - -[Illustration] - -The great Reputation Mrs. _Margery_ acquired by composing -Differences in Families, and especially, between Man and Wife, induced -her to cultivate that Part of her System of Morality and Economy, in -order to render it more extensively useful. For this Purpose, she -contrived what she called a Charm for the Passions; which was a -considering Cap, almost as large as a Grenadier's, but of three equal -Sides; on the first of which was written, I MAY BE WRONG; on the -second, IT IS FIFTY TO ONE BUT YOU ARE; and on the third, I'LL -CONSIDER OF IT. The other Parts on the out-side, were filled with odd -Characters, as unintelligible as the Writings of the old -_Egyptians_; but within Side there was a Direction for its Use, -of the utmost Consequence; for it strictly enjoined the Possessor to -put on the Cap, whenever he found his Passions begin to grow -turbulent, and not to deliver a Word whilst it was on, but with great -Coolness and Moderation. As this Cap was an universal Cure for -Wrong-headedness, and prevented numberless Disputes and Quarrels, it -greatly hurt the Trade of the poor Lawyers, but was of the utmost -Service to the rest of the Community. They were bought by Husbands and -Wives, who had themselves frequent Occasion for them, and sometimes -lent them to their Children: They were also purchased in large -Quantities by Masters and Servants; by young Folks, who were intent on -Matrimony, by Judges, Jurymen, and even Physicians and Divines; nay, -if we may believe History, the Legislators of the Land did not disdain -the Use of them; and we are told, that when any important Debate -arose, _Cap, was the Word_, and each House looked like a grand -Synod of _Egyptian_ Priests. Nor was this Cap of less Use to -Partners in Trade, for with these, as well as with Husband and Wife, -if one was out of Humour, the other threw him the Cap, and he was -obliged to put it on, and keep it till all was quiet. I myself saw -thirteen Caps worn at a Time in one Family, which could not have -subsisted an Hour without them; and I was particularly pleased at Sir -_Humphry Huffum's_, to hear a little Girl, when her Father was -out of Humour, ask her Mamma, _if she should reach down the Cap_? -These Caps, indeed, were of such Utility, that People of Sense never -went without them; and it was common in the Country, when a Booby made -his Appearance, and talked Nonsense, to say, _he had no Cap in his -Pocket_. - -[Illustration] - - _Advice from FRIAR BACON._ - -What was _Fortunatus_'s Wishing Cap, when compared to this? That -Cap, is said to have conveyed People instantly from one Place to -another; but, as the Change of Place does not change the Temper and -Disposition of the Mind, little Benefit can be expected from it; nor -indeed is much to be hoped from his famous Purse: That Purse, it is -said, was never empty, and such a Purse, may be sometimes convenient; -but as Money will not purchase Peace, it is not necessary for a Man to -encumber himself with a great deal of it. Peace and Happiness depend -so much upon the State of a Man's own Mind, and upon the Use of the -considering Cap, that it is generally his own Fault, if he is -miserable. One of these Caps will last a Man his whole Life, and is a -Discovery of much greater Importance to the Public than the -Philosopher's Stone. Remember what was said by my Brazen Head, _Time -is, Time was, Time is past_: Now the _Time is_, therefore buy -the Cap immediately, and make a proper Use of it, and be happy before -the _Time is past_. - -_Yours_ ROGER BACON. - - - - - CHAP. VI. - - _How Mrs._ MARGERY _was taken up for a Witch, - and what happened on that Occasion._ - - -And so it is true? And they have taken up Mrs. _Margery_ then, -and accused her of being a Witch, only because she was wiser than some -of her Neighbours! Mercy upon me! People stuff Children's Heads with -Stories of Ghosts, Faries, Witches, and such Nonsense when they are -young, and so they continue Fools all their Days. The whole World -ought to be made acquainted with her Case, and here it is at their -Service. - -_The Case of Mrs._ MARGERY. - -Mrs. _Margery_, as we have frequently observed, was always doing -Good, and thought she could never sufficiently gratify those who had -done any Thing to serve her. These generous Sentiments, naturally led -her to consult the Interest of Mr. _Grove_, and the rest of her -Neighbours; and as most of their Lands were Meadow, and they depended -much on their Hay, which had been for many Years greatly damaged by -wet Weather, she contrived an Instrument to direct them when to mow -their Grass with Safety, and prevent their Hay being spoiled. They all -came to her for Advice, and by that Means got in their Hay without -Damage, while most of that in the neighbouring Villages was spoiled. - -This made a great Noise in the Country, and so provoked were the -People in the other Parishes, that they accused her of being a Witch, -and sent Gasser _Goosecap_, a busy Fellow in other People's -Concerns, to find out Evidence against her. This Wiseacre happened to -come to her School, when she was walking about with the Raven on one -Shoulder, the Pidgeon on the other, the Lark on her Hand, and the Lamb -and the Dog by her Side; which indeed made a droll Figure, and so -surprized the that he cried out, a Witch! a Witch! upon this she -laughing, answered, a Conjurer! a Conjurer! and so they parted; but it -did not end thus, for a Warrant was issued out against Mrs. -_Margery_, and she was carried to a Meeting of the Justices, -whither all the Neighbours followed her. - -[Illustration] - -At the Meeting, one of the Justices, who knew little of Life, and less -of the Law, behaved very idly; and though no Body was able to prove -any Thing against her, asked, who she could bring to her Character? -_Who_ can you bring against my Character, Sir, says she, there -are People enough who would appear in my Defence, were it necessary; -but I never supposed that any one here could be so weak, as to believe -there was any such Thing as a Witch. If I am a Witch, this is my -Charm, and (laying a Barometer or Weather Glass on the Table) it is -with this, says she, that I have taught my Neighbours to know the -State of the Weather. All the Company laughed, and Sir _William -Dove_, who was on the Bench, asked her Accusers, how they could be -such Fools, as to think there was any such Thing as a Witch. It is -true, continued he, many innocent and worthy People have been abused -and even murdered on this absurd and foolish Supposition; which is a -Scandal to our Religion, to our Laws, to our Nation, and to common -Sense; but I will tell you a Story. - -There was in the West of _England_ a poor industrious Woman, who -laboured under the same evil Report, which this good Woman is accused -of. Every Hog that died with the Murrain, every Cow that slipt her -Calf, she was accountable for: If a Horse had the Staggers, she was -supposed to be in his Head; and whenever the Wind blew a little harder -than ordinary, _Goody Giles_ was playing her Tricks, and riding -upon a Broomstick in the Air. These, and a thousand other Phantasies, -too ridiculous to recite, possessed the Pates of the common People: -Horse-shoes were nailed with the Heels upwards, and many Tricks made -use of, to mortify the poor Creature; and such was their Rage against -her, that they petitioned Mr. _Williams_, the Parson of the -Parish, not to let her come to Church; and at last, even insisted upon -it: But this he over-ruled, and allowed the poor old Woman a Nook in -one of the Isles to herself, where she muttered over her Prayers in -the best Manner she could. The Parish, thus disconcerted and enraged, -withdrew the small Pittance they allowed for her Support, and would -have reduced her to the Necessity of starving, had she not been still -assisted by the benevolent Mr. _Williams_. - -But I hasten to the Sequel of my Story, in which you will find, that -the true Source from whence Witchcraft springs is _Poverty_, -_Age_, and _Ignorance_; and that it is impossible for a -Woman to pass for a Witch, unless she is _very poor_, _very -old_, and lives in a Neighbourhood where the People are _void of -common Sense_. - -Some Time after, a Brother of her's died in _London_, who, though he -would not part with a Farthing while he lived, at his Death was -obliged to leave her five thousand Pounds, that he could not carry -with him.--This altered the Face of _Jane_'s Affairs prodigiously: -She was no longer _Jane_, alias _Joan Giles_, the ugly old Witch, but -Madam _Giles_; her old ragged Garb was exchanged for one that was new -and genteel; her greatest Enemies made their Court to her, even the -Justice himself came to wish her Joy; and though several Hogs and -Horses died, and the Wind frequently blew afterwards, yet Madam -_Giles_ was never supposed to have a Hand in it; and from hence it is -plain, as I observed before, that a Woman must be _very poor, very -old_, and live in a Neighbourhood, where the People are _very stupid_, -before she can possibly pass for a Witch. - -'Twas a Saying of Mr. _Williams_, who would sometimes be jocose, -and had the Art of making even Satire agreeable; that if ever -_Jane_ deserved the Character of a Witch, it was after this Money -was left her; for that with her five thousand Pounds, she did more -Acts of Charity and friendly Offices, than all the People of Fortune -within fifty Miles of the Place. - -After this, Sir _William_ inveighed against the absurd and -foolish Notions, which the Country People had imbibed concerning -Witches, and Witchcraft, and having proved that there was no such -Thing, but that all were the Effects of Folly and Ignorance, he gave -the Court such an Account of Mrs. _Margery_, and her Virtue, good -Sense, and prudent Behaviour, that the Gentlemen present were -enamoured with her, and returned her public Thanks for the great -Service she had done the Country. One Gentleman in particular, I mean -Sir _Charles Jones_, had conceived such an high Opinion of her, -that he offered her a considerable Sum to take the Care of his Family, -and the Education of his Daughter, which, however, she refused; but -this Gentleman, sending for her afterwards when he had a dangerous Fit -of Illness, she went, and behaved so prudently in the Family, and so -tenderly to him and his Daughter, that he would not permit her to -leave his House, but soon after made her Proposals of Marriage. She -was truly sensible of the Honour he intended her, but, though poor, -she would not consent to be made a Lady, till he had effectually -provided for his Daughter; for she told him, that Power was a -dangerous Thing to be trusted with, and that a good Man or Woman would -never throw themselves into the Road of Temptation. - -[Illustration] - -All Things being settled, and the Day fixed, the Neighbours came in -Crouds to see the Wedding; for they were all glad, that one who had -been such a good little Girl, and was become such a virtuous and good -Woman, was going to be made a Lady; but just as the Clergyman had -opened his Book, a Gentleman richly dressed ran into the Church, and -cry'd, Stop! stop! This greatly alarmed the Congregation, particularly -the intended Bride and Bridegroom, whom he first accosted, and desired -to speak with them apart. After they had been talking some little -Time, the People were greatly surprized to see Sir _Charles_ -stand Motionless, and his Bride cry, and faint away in the Stranger's -Arms. This seeming Grief, however, was only a Prelude to a Flood of -Joy, which immediately succeeded; for you must know, gentle Reader, -that this Gentleman, so richly dressed and bedizened with Lace, was -that identical little Boy, whom you before saw in the Sailor's Habit; -in short, it was little _Tom Two Shoes_, Mrs. _Margery's_ -Brother, who was just come from beyond Sea, where he had made a large -Fortune, and hearing, as soon as he landed, of his Sister's intended -Wedding, had rode Post, to see that a proper Settlement was made on -her; which he thought she was now intitled to, as he himself was both -able and willing to give her an ample Fortune. They soon returned to -the Communion-Table, and were married in Tears, but they were Tears of -Joy. - -There is something wonderful in this young Gentleman's Preservation -and Success in Life; which we shall acquaint the Reader of, in the -History of his Life and Adventures, which will soon be published. - - - - - CHAP. VII. and Last. - - _The true Use of Riches._ - - -The Harmony and Affection that subsisted between this happy Couple, is -inexpressible; but Time, which dissolves the closest Union, after six -Years, severed Sir _Charles_ from his Lady; for being seized with -a violent Fever he died, and left her full of Grief, tho' possessed of -a large Fortune. - -We forgot to remark, that after her Marriage, _Lady Jones_ (for -so we must now call her) ordered the Chappel to be fitted up, and -allowed the Chaplain a considerable Sum out of her own private Purse, -to visit the Sick, and say Prayers every Day to all the People that -could attend. She also gave Mr. _Johnson_ ten Guineas a Year, to -preach a Sermon, annually, on the Necessity and Duties of the marriage -State, and on the Decease of Sir _Charles_; she gave him ten -more, to preach yearly on the Subject of Death; she had put all the -Parish into Mourning for the Loss of her Husband; and to those Men who -attended this yearly Service, she gave Harvest Gloves, to their Wives -Shoes and Stockings, and to all the Children little Books and -Plumb-cakes: We must also observe, that she herself wove a Chaplet of -Flowers, and before the Service, placed it on his Grave-stone; and a -suitable Psalm was always sung by the Congregation. - -About this Time, she heard that Mr. _Smith_ was oppressed by Sir -Timothy Gripe_, the Justice, and his Friend _Graspall_, who -endeavoured to deprive him of Part of his Tythes; upon which she, in -Conjunction with her Brother, defended him, and the Cause was tried in -_Westminster-hall_, where Mr. _Smith_ gained a Verdict; and -it appearing that Sir _Timothy_ had behaved most scandalously, as -a Justice of the Peace, he was struck off the List, and no longer -permitted to act in that Capacity. This was a Cut to a Man of his -imperious Disposition, and this was followed by one yet more severe; -for a Relation of his, who had an undoubted Right to the -_Mouldwell_ Estate, finding that it was possible to get the -better at Law of a rich Man, laid Claim to it, brought his Action, and -recovered the whole Manor of _Mouldwell_, and being afterwards -inclined to sell it, he, in Consideration of the Aid Lady -_Margery_ had lent him during his Distress, made her the first -Offer, and she purchased the Whole, and threw it into different Farms, -that the Poor might be no longer under the Dominion of two over-grown -Men. - -This was a great Mortification to Sir _Timothy_, as well as to -his Friend _Graspall_, who from this Time experienced nothing but -Misfortunes, and was in a few Years so dispossessed of his Ill-gotten -Wealth, that his Family were reduced to seek Subsistance from the -Parish, at which those who had felt the Weight of his Iron Hand -rejoiced; but Lady _Margery_ desired, that his Children might be -treated with Care and Tenderness; _for they_, says she, _are no -Ways accountable for the Actions of their Father_. - -At her first coming into Power, she took Care to gratify her old -Friends, especially Mr. and Mrs. _Smith_, whose Family she made -happy.--She paid great Regard to the Poor, made their Interest her -own, and to induce them to come regularly to Church, she ordered a -Loaf, or the Price of a Loaf, to be given to every one who would -accept of it. This brought many of them to Church, who by degrees -learned their Duty, and then came on a more noble Principle. She also -took Care to encourage Matrimony; and in order to induce her Tenants -and Neighbours to enter into that happy State, she always gave the -young Couple something towards House-keeping; and stood Godmother to -all their Children, whom she had in Parties, every _Sunday_ -Evening, to teach them their Catechism, and lecture them in Religion -and Morality; after which she treated them with a Supper, gave them -such Books as they wanted, and then dispatched them with her Blessing. -Nor did she forget them at her Death, but left each a Legacy, as will -be seen among other charitable Donations when we publish her Will, -which we may do in some future Volume. There is one Request however so -singular, that we cannot help taking some Notice of it in this Place; -which is, that of her giving so many Acres of Land to be planted -yearly with Potatoes, for all the Poor of any Parish who would come -and fetch them for the Use of their Families; but if any took them to -sell they were deprived of that Privilege ever after. And these Roots -were planted and raised from the Rent arising from a Farm which she -had assigned over for that purpose. In short, she was a Mother to the -Poor, a Physician to the Sick, and a Friend to all who were in -Distress. Her Life was the greatest Blessing, and her Death the -greatest Calamity that ever was felt in the Neighbourhood. A Monument, -but without Inscription, was erected to her Memory in the Church-yard, -over which the Poor as they pass weep continually, so that the Stone -is ever bathed in Tears. - -On this Occasion the following Lines were spoken extempore by a young -Gentleman. - - _How vain the Tears that fall from you, - And here supply the Place of Dew? - How vain to weep the happy Dead, - Who now to heavenly Realms are fled? - Repine no more, your Plaints forbear, - And all prepare to meet them there._ - - The END. - - - - - APPENDIX. - - _The_ GOLDEN DREAM; _or, - the_ INGENUOUS CONFESSION. - - -[Illustration] - -To shew the Depravity of human Nature, and how apt the Mind is to be -misled by Trinkets and false Appearances, Mrs. _Two-Shoes_ does -acknowledge, that after she became rich, she had like to have been too -fond of Money; for on seeing her Husband receive a very large Sum, her -Heart went pit pat, pit pat, all the Evening, and she began to think -that Guineas were pretty Things. To suppress this Turbulence of Mind, -which was a Symptom of approaching Avarice, she said her Prayers earlier -than usual, and at Night had the following Dream; which I shall relate -in her own Words. - -"Methought, as I slept, a Genii stept up to me with a _French_ -Commode, which having placed on my Head, he said, now go and be happy; -for from henceforth every Thing you touch shall turn to Gold. Willing -to try the Experiment, I gently touched the Bed-post and Furniture, -which immediately became massy Gold burnished, and of surprizing -Brightness. I then touched the Walls of the House, which assumed the -same Appearance, and looked amazingly magnificent. Elated with this -wonderful Gift, I rang hastily for my Maid to carry the joyful News to -her Master, who, as I thought, was then walking in the Garden. -_Sukey_ came, but in the Extacy I was in, happening to touch her -Hand, she became instantly an immovable Statue. Go, said I, and call -your Master; but she made no reply, nor could she stir. Upon this I -shrieked, and in came my dear Husband, whom I ran to embrace; when no -sooner had I touched him, but he became good for nothing; that is, -good for nothing but his Weight in Gold; and that you know could be -nothing, where Gold was so plenty. At this instant up came another -Servant with a Glass of Water, thinking me ill; this I attempted to -swallow, but no sooner did it touch my Mouth, than it became a hard -solid Body, and unfit for drinking. My Distress now grew -insupportable! I had destroyed, as I thought, my dear Husband, and my -favourite Servant; and I plainly perceived, that I should die for want -in the midst of so much Wealth. Ah, said I, why did I long for Riches! -Having enough already, why did I covet more? Thus terrified, I began -to rave, and beat my Breast, which awaked Sir _Charles_, who -kindly called me from this State of Inquietude, and composed my Mind." - -This Scene I have often considered as a Lesson, instructing me, that a -Load of Riches bring, instead of Felicity, a Load of Troubles; and -that the only Source of Happiness is _Contentment_. Go, -therefore, you who have too much, and give it to those who are in -want; so shall you be happy yourselves, by making others happy. This -is a Precept from the Almighty, a Precept which must be regarded; for -_The Lord is about your Paths, and about your Bed, and spieth out -all your Ways_. - -_An Anecdote, respecting_ TOM TWO-SHOES, _communicated by a -Gentleman, who is now writing the History of his Life._ - -It is generally known, that _Tom Two-Shoes_ went to Sea when he was -a very little Boy, and very poor; and that he returned a very great Man, -and very rich; but no one knows how he acquired so much Wealth but -myself, and a few Friends, who have perused the Papers from which I am -compiling the History of his Life. - -After _Tom_ had been at Sea some Years, he was unfortunately cast -away, on that Part of the Coast of _Africa_ inhabited by the -_Hottentots_. Here he met with a strange Book, which the -_Hottentots_ did not understand, and which gave him some Account -of _Prester John's_ Country; and being a Lad of great Curiosity -and Resolution he determined to see it; accordingly he set out on the -Pursuit, attended by a young Lion, which he had tamed and made so fond -of him, that he followed him like a Dog, and obeyed all his Commands; -and indeed it was happy for him that he had such a Companion; for as -his Road lay through large Woods and Forests, that were full of wild -Beasts and without Inhabitants, he must have been soon starved or torn -in Pieces, had he not been both fed and protected by this noble -Animal. - -[Illustration] - -_Tom_ had provided himself with two Guns, a Sword, and as much -Powder and Ball as he could carry; with these Arms, and such a -Companion, it was mighty easy for him to get Food; for the Animals in -these wild and extensive Forests, having never seen the Effects of a -Gun, readily ran from the Lion, who hunted on one Side, to _Tom_, -who hunted on the other, so that they were either caught by the Lion, -or shot by his Master; and it was pleasant enough, after a hunting -Match, and the Meat was dressed, to see how Cheek by Joul they sat -down to Dinner. - -[Illustration] - -When they came info the Land of _Utopia_, he discovered the -Statue of a Man created on an open Plain, which had this Inscription -on the Pedestal: _On_ May-day _in the Morning, when the Sun -rises, I shall have a Head of Gold_. As it was now the latter End -of _April_, he stayed to see this wonderful Change; and in the -mean time, enquiring of a poor Shepherd what was the Reason of the -Statue being erected there, and with that Inscription, he was -informed, that it was set up many Years ago by an _Arabian_ -Philosopher, who travelled all the World over in Search of a real -Friend; that he lived with, and was extremely fond of a great Man who -inhabited the next Mountain; but that on some Occasion they -quarrelled, and the Philosopher, leaving the Mountain, retired into -the Plain, where he erected this Statue with his own Hands, and soon -after died. To this he added, that all the People for many Leagues -round came there every _May_ Morning, expecting to see the -Stone-head turned to Gold. - -_Tom_ got up very early on the first of _May_ to behold this -amazing Change, and when he came near the Statue he saw a Number of -People, who all ran away from him in the utmost Consternation, hating -never before seen a Lion follow a Man like a Lap-dog. Being thus left -alone, he fixed his Eyes on the Sun, then rising with resplendent -Majesty, and afterwards turned to the Statue, but could see no Change -in the Stone.--Surely, says he to himself, there is some mystical -Meaning in this! This Inscription must be an Ænigma, the hidden -Meaning of which I will endeavour to find; for a Philosopher would -never expect a Stone to be turned to Gold; accordingly he measured the -Length of the Shadow, which the Statue gave on the Ground by the Sun -shining on it, and marked that particular Part where the Head fell, -then getting a _Chopness_ (a Thing like a Spade) and digging, he -discovered a Copper-chest, full of Gold, with this Inscription -engraved on the Lid of it. - - Thy WIT, - Oh Man! whoever thou art, - Hath disclos'd the Ænigma, - And discover'd the GOLDEN HEAD. - Take it and use it, - But use it with WISDOM; - For know, - That GOLD, properly employ'd, - May dispense Blessings, - And promote the Happiness of Morals; - But when hoarded up, - Or misapply'd, - Is but Trash, that makes Mankind miserable. - Remember - The unprofitable Servant, - Who hid his _Talent_ in a Napkin; - And - The profligate Son, - Who squander'd away his Substance and - fed with the Swine. - As thou hast got the GOLDEN HEAD, - Observe the _Golden Mean_, - Be _Good_ and be happy. - - -This Lesson, coming as it were from the Dead, struck him with such -Awe, and Reverence for Piety and Virtue, that, before he removed the -Treasure, he kneeled down, and earnestly and fervently prayed that he -might make a prudent, just and proper Use of it. He then conveyed the -Chest away; but how he got it to _England_, the Reader will be -informed in the History of his Life. It may not be improper, however, -in this Place, to give the Reader some Account of the Philosopher who -hid this Treasure, and took so much Pains to find a true and real -Friend to enjoy it. As _Tom_ had Reason to venerate his Memory, -he was very particular in his Enquiry, and had this Character of -him;--that he was a Man well acquainted with Nature and with Trade; -that he was pious, friendly, and of a sweet and affable Disposition. -That he had acquired a Fortune by Commerce, and having no Relations to -leave it to, he travelled through _Arabia, Persia, India, Libia_ -and _Utopia_ in search of a real Friend. In this Pursuit he found -several with whom he exchanged good Offices, and that were polite and -obliging, but they often flew off for Trifles; or as soon as he -pretended to be in Distress, and requested their Assistance, left him -to struggle with his own Difficulties. So true is that Copy in our -Books, which says, _Adversity is the Touchstone of Friendship_. -At last, however, he met with the _Utopian_ Philosopher, or the -wise Man of the Mountain, as he is called, and thought in him he had -found the Friend he wanted; for though he often pretended to be in -Distress, and abandoned to the Frowns of Fortune, this Man always -relieved him, and with such Chearfulness and Sincerity, that -concluding he had found out the only Man to whom he ought to open both -his Purse and his Heart, he let him so far into his Secrets, as to -desire his Assistance in hiding a large Sum of Money, which he wanted -to conceal, lest the Prince of the Country, who was absolute, should, -by the Advice of his wicked Minister, put him to Death for his Gold. -The two Philosophers met and hid the Money, which the Stranger, after -some Days, went to see, but found it gone. How was he struck to the -Heart, when he found that his Friend, whom he had often tried, and who -had relieved him in his Distress, could not withstand this Temptation, -but broke through the sacred Bonds of Friendship, and turned even a -Thief for Gold which he did not want, as he was already very rich. Oh! -said he, what is the Heart of Man made of? Why am I condemned to live -among People who have no Sincerity, and who barter the most sacred -Ties of Friendship and Humanity for the Dirt that we tread on? Had I -lost my Gold and found a real Friend, I should have been happy with -the Exchange, but now I am most miserable. After some Time he wiped -off his Tears, and being determined not to be so imposed on, he had -Recourse to Cunning and the Arts of Life. He went to his pretended -Friend with a chearful Countenance, told him he had more Gold to hide, -and desired him to appoint a Time when they might go together, and -open the Earth to put it into the same Pot; the other, in Hopes of -getting more Wealth, appointed the next Evening. They went together, -opened the Ground, and found the Money they had first placed there, -for the artful Wretch, he so much confided in, had conveyed it again -into the Pot, in order to obtain more. Our Philosopher immediately -took the Gold, and putting it into his Pocket, told the other he had -now altered his Mind, and should bury it no more, till he found a Man -more worthy of his Confidence. See what People lose by being -dishonest. This calls to my Mind the Words of the Poet: - - _A Wit's a Feather, and a Chief's a Rod, - An honest Man's the noblest Work of God._ - -Remember this Story, and take Care whom you trust; but don't be -covetous, sordid and miserable; for the Gold we have is but lent us to -do Good with. We received all from the Hand of God, and every Person -in Distress hath a just Title to a Portion of it. - - _A_ LETTER _from the_ PRINTER, _which he - desires may be inserted_. - -SIR, - -I have done with your Copy, so you may return it to the -_Vatican_, if you please; and pray tell Mr. _Angelo_ to -brush up the Cuts, that, in the next Edition, they may give us a good -Impression. - -The Foresight and Sagacity of Mrs. _Margery_'s Dog calls to my -Mind a Circumstance, which happened when I was a Boy. Some Gentlemen -in the Place where I lived had been hunting, and were got under a -great Tree to shelter themselves from a Thunder Storm; when a Dog that -always followed one of the Gentlemen leaped up his Horse several -Times, and then ran away and barked. At last, the Gentlemen all -followed to see what he would be at; and they were no sooner gone from -the Tree, but it was shivered in Pieces by Lightning! 'Tis remarkable, -that as soon as they came from the Tree the Dog appeared to be very -well satisfied, and barked no more. The Gentleman after this always -regarded the Dog as his Friend, treated him in his Old Age with great -Tenderness, and fed him with Milk as long as he lived. - -My old Master _Grierson_ had also a Dog, that ought to be -mentioned with Regard; for he used to set him up as a Pattern of -Sagacity and Prudence, not only to his Journeymen, but to the whole -Neighbours. This Dog had been taught a thousand Tricks, and among -other Feats he could dance, tumble, and drink Wine and Punch till he -was little better than mad. It happened one Day, when the Men had made -him drunk with Liquor, and he was capering about, that he fell into a -large Vessel of boiling Water. They soon got him out, and he -recovered; but he was very much hurt, and being sensible, that this -Accident arose from his losing his Senses by Drinking, he would never -taste any strong Liquor afterwards.--My old Master, on relating this -Story, and shewing the Dog, used to address us thus, _Ah, my -Friends, had you but half the Sense of this poor Dog here, you would -never get fuddled, and be Fools._ - -I am, Sir, Your's, &c. W.B. - -The BOOKS usually read by the Scholars of Mrs. TWO-SHOES, are these, -and are sold at Mr. NEWBERY'S at the _Bible_ and _Sun_ in -St. _Paul's_ Church-yard. - - 1. The _Christmas-Box_, Price 1d. - - 2. The History of _Giles Gingerbread_, 1d. - - 3. 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In which they -can see all the fun of the fair, and at home be as happy as if they -were there, a Book of great consequence to all whom it may -concern.<br> -</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<span class="newpage"><a name="pagev" id="pagev">[v]</a></span> - -<p>"We are also desired to give notice that there is in the Press, -and speedily will be published either by subscription or otherwise, -as the Public shall please to determine, The History of Little -Goody Two Shoes, otherwise called Margery Two Shoes. Printed and -sold at The Bible and Sun in St Paul's Churchyard, where may be had -all Mr Newbery's little books for the children and youth of these -kingdoms and the colonies. New Editions of those which were out of -print are now republished.</p> - -<p>"The publication of the Lilliputian System of Politics is -postponed till the meeting of Parliament. This work, which will be -replete with cuts and characters, is not intended to exalt or -depress any particular country, to support the pride of any -particular family, or to feed the folly of any particular party, -but to <span class="newpage"><a name="pagevi" id= -"pagevi">[vi]</a></span>stimulate the mind to virtue, to promote -universal benevolence, to make mankind happy. Those who would know -more of the matter may enquire of Mr Newbery."</p> - -<p>This quaint and curious announcement, with its sly humour and -serious playfulness, is characteristic of the house of John -Newbery, in the latter part of the last century; and there is no -need to speak here of the fame of the books for children which he -published; "the philanthropic publisher of St Paul's Churchyard," -as Goldsmith calls him, conferred inestimable benefits upon -thousands of little folk, of both high and low estate. It is said -of Southey when a child that</p> - -<p>"The well-known publishers of "Goody Two Shoes," "Giles -Gingerbread," and other such delectable histories, in <span class= -"newpage"><a name="pagevii" id="pagevii">[vii]</a></span>sixpenny -books for children, splendidly bound in the flowered and gilt Dutch -paper of former days, sent him twenty such volumes, and laid the -foundation of a love of books which grew with the child's growth, -and did not cease even when the vacant mind and eye could only gaze -in piteous, though blissful imbecility upon the things they -loved."[A]</p> - -<p>Many of these little books have been doubtless long since -forgotten, though they did not deserve such a fate; but the name of -"Goody Two Shoes" is still familiar to the ears of English -children, though the book itself may be unknown to thousands of -little ones of this later generation.</p> - -<span class="newpage"><a name="pageviii" id= -"pageviii">[viii]</a></span> - -<p>"Goody Two Shoes" was published in April 1765, and few nursery -books have had a wider circulation, or have retained their position -so long. The number of editions that have been published both in -England and America is legion, and it has appeared in mutilated -versions under the auspices of numerous publishing houses in London -and the provinces, although of late years there have been no new -issues. Even in 1802, Charles Lamb in writing to Coleridge, -said--</p> - -<p>" "Goody Two Shoes" is almost out of print. Mrs Barbauld's -stuff has banished all the old classics of the nursery, and the -shopman at Newbery's hardly deigned to reach them off an old -exploded corner of a shelf, when Mary asked for them. Mrs -Barbauld's and Mrs Trimmer's nonsense lay in piles about. -Knowledge, <span class="newpage"><a name="pageix" id= -"pageix">[ix]</a></span>insignificant and vapid as Mrs Barbauld's -books convey, it seems must come to a child in the shape of -knowledge; and his empty noddle must be turned with conceit of his -own powers when he has learnt that a horse is an animal, and Billy -is better than a horse, and such like, instead of that beautiful -interest in wild tales, which made the child a man, while all the -time he suspected himself to be no bigger than a child. Science has -succeeded to poetry no less in the little walks of children than -with men. Is there no possibility of averting this sore evil? Think -what you would have been now, if instead of being fed with tales -and old wives' fables in childhood, you had been crammed with -geography and natural history!</p> - -<p>"Hang them!--I mean the cursed Barbauld <span class="newpage"><a -name="pagex" id="pagex">[x]</a></span>crew, those blights and -blasts of all that is human in man and child."[B]</p> - -<p>There must, however, be many parents still living who remember -the delight that the little story gave them in their younger days, -and they will, no doubt, be pleased to see it once more in the form -which was then so familiar to them. The children of to-day, too, -will look on it with some curiosity, on account of the fact that it -is one of the oldest of our nursery tales, and amused and edified -their grand-parents and great grand-parents when they were -children, while they cannot fail to be attracted by its simple, -pretty, and interesting story.</p> - -<hr width="30%"> -<span class="newpage"><a name="pagexi" id="pagexi">[xi]</a></span> - -<p>The question of the authorship of the book is still an unsettled -one. It was at one time commonly attributed to Oliver Goldsmith, -and no one who reads the book will consider it to be unworthy of -the poet's pen. We find, however, in Nichol's Literary Anecdotes, -that</p> - -<p>"It is not perhaps generally known that to Mr Griffith Jones, -and a brother of his, Mr Giles Jones, in conjunction with Mr John -Newbery, the public are indebted for the origin of those numerous -and popular little books for the amusement and instruction of -children which have been ever since received with universal -approbation. The Lilliputian histories of Goody Two Shoes, Giles -Gingerbread, Tommy Trip, &c., &c., are remarkable proofs of -the benevolent minds of the projectors of this plan of <span class= -"newpage"><a name="pagexii" id= -"pagexii">[xii]</a></span>instruction, and respectable instances of -the accommodation of superior talents to the feeble intellects of -infantine felicity."</p> - -<p>Mr Giles Jones was the grandfather of the late Mr Winter Jones, -formerly the Principal Librarian of the British Museum, and the -book is attributed to the first-named gentleman in the catalogue of -the British Museum. It is claimed also that the book offers -internal evidence in support of Mr Giles Jones' authorship, -inasmuch as Goody Two Shoes becomes Lady Jones, and one of the -prominent families in the book is also named Jones.</p> - -<p>Beyond this, however, there appears to be no evidence as to Mr -Giles Jones being the writer, and I think something may be said as -to the claim on behalf of the poet Goldsmith, although I am by no -means anxious that the <span class="newpage"><a name="pagexiii" id= -"pagexiii">[xiii]</a></span>honour of having written it should be -ascribed either to the one or to the other: the following remarks, -which are mainly taken from an article I contributed to the -<i>Athenæum</i> in April 1881, are offered simply as -speculations which may not be without interest to lovers of the -little book. They may, perhaps, show that there is some reason for -attributing the work to Oliver Goldsmith, although, of course, it -is not claimed that they absolutely establish the fact.</p> - -<p>Having occasion to examine carefully as many of the books for -children published by John Newbery as I could procure (and they are -as scarce as blackberries in midwinter, for what among books has so -brief a life as a nursery book?), I was struck while perusing them -with a certain distinct literary flavour, so to <span class= -"newpage"><a name="pagexiv" id="pagexiv">[xiv]</a></span>speak, -which appeared to be common to a group of little volumes, all -published about the same period. These were: "Goody Two Shoes," -"Giles Gingerbread," "Tom Thumb's Folio," "The Lilliputian -Magazine," "The Lilliputian Masquerade," "The Easter Gift," "A -Pretty Plaything," "The Fairing," "Be Merry and Wise," "The -Valentine's Gift," "Pretty Poems for the Amusement of Children -Three Feet High," "A Pretty Book of Pictures," "Tom Telescope," and -a few others. I give abbreviated titles only, but if space -permitted I mould like to quote them in full; they are remarkable -no less for their curious quaintness and their clever ingenuity -than for their attractiveness to both parents (who, it must not be -forgotten, are more often the real buyers <span class="newpage"><a -name="pagexv" id="pagexv">[xv]</a></span>of children's books) and -the young people for whom they were written, and they are in -themselves most entertaining and amusing reading. This group of -little books possesses, moreover, another characteristic that is -sufficiently remarkable of itself to be noticed. While they all -evince a real genius for writing in a style suited to the -capacities of little folk, there is a nameless something about them -which, far more than is the case with thousands of other books for -the young, is calculated to enforce the attention and excite the -interest of "children of a larger growth."</p> - -<p>Now one of this little group, "The Lilliputian Magazine," is -attributed in the British Museum Catalogue to Oliver Goldsmith; and -so strong is the family likeness in all the books I have mentioned, -<span class="newpage"><a name="pagexvi" id= -"pagexvi">[xvi]</a></span>that I cannot but believe they are all by -the same hand--a belief which I think will be shared by any one who -will take the trouble to compare them carefully. But I should -advise him to rely on the Newbery editions alone, for grievously -garbled versions of nearly every one of these books have been -issued from many different houses throughout the country.</p> - -<p>Many authorities have supported the view that Goldsmith was the -author of "Goody Two Shoes." Conspicuous among them was Washington -Irving, who says, "It is suggested with great probability that he -wrote for Mr Newbery the famous nursery story of 'Goody Two -Shoes.'" It is said also that William Godwin held this opinion; and -I believe there is authority for <span class="newpage"><a name= -"pagexvii" id="pagexvii">[xvii]</a></span>stating that the Misses -Bewick, the daughters of the celebrated engraver, who illustrated -an edition of the book for T. Saint, of Newcastle, understood from -their father that it was by Oliver Goldsmith.</p> - -<p>But let us turn to the book itself and see if it furnishes any -evidence on the point. The very title, with its quaint phrasing, -shows no common genius, and as Washington Irving says, "bears the -stamp of his [Goldsmith's] sly and playful humour." As the book was -published in 1765, it would most likely have been written just at -the time when Goldsmith was working most industriously in the -service of Newbery (1763-4), at which period it will be remembered -that he was living near Newbery at Islington, and his publisher was -paying for his board and lodging.</p> - -<span class="newpage"><a name="pagexviii" id= -"pagexviii">[xviii]</a></span> - -<p>Without, of course, claiming that similarity of idea in -different writings necessarily betokens the same authorship, I -think the parallels that are to be found in this little book, with -many of the sentiments in Oliver Goldsmith's acknowledged work--to -say nothing of the almost universally recognized likeness to -Goldsmith's style that is found in "Goody Two Shoes" may fairly be -considered as throwing some light upon the question.</p> - -<p>The most striking of these parallels is perhaps that furnished -by the curious little political preface to the work--a preface -which is quite unnecessary to the book, and I think would only have -been inserted by one who was full of the unjustnesses at which he -was preparing to aim a still heavier blow. In <span class= -"newpage"><a name="pagexix" id="pagexix">[xix]</a></span>describing -the parish of Mouldwell, where little Margery was born, an exact -picture is drawn of "The Deserted Village," where</p> - -<p><small> One only master grasps the whole domain<br> - And half a tillage tints thy smiling plain;</small></p> - -<p>And where</p> - -<p><small> ---- the man of -wealth and pride<br> - Takes up a space that many a poor supplied:<br> - Space for his lakes his park's extended bounds,<br> - Space for his horses, equipage, and hounds.</small></p> - -<p>And by this and other tyrannies, and being also</p> - -<p><small> Scourged by famine from the smiling -land,</small></p> - -<p>for he was "unfortunate in his business" at about the same time, -Sir Timothy accomplishes his aim, and</p> - -<p><small> Indignant spurns the cottage from the -green.</small></p> - -<p>Ruined by this oppression, poor Mr <span class="newpage"><a -name="pagexx" id="pagexx">[xx]</a></span>Meanwell is turned out of -doors,<br> -and flew to another parish for succour.</p> - -<p><small> Where, then, ah! where shall poverty -reside<br> - To 'scape the pressure of contiguous pride?</small></p> - -<p>Sir Timothy, however, suffers for his injustice and wickedness, -for "great part of the land lay untilled for some years, which was -deemed a just reward for such diabolical proceedings."</p> - -<p><small> Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a -prey,<br> - Where wealth accumulates and men decay.</small></p> - -<p>Miss Charlotte Yonge, to whom I shall refer again, lays upon -this: "If the conjecture be true which attributes this tale to -Oliver Goldsmith, we have seen the same spirit which prompted his -poem of 'The Deserted Village,' namely, indignation and dismay at -the discouragement of small holdings in the early part <span class= -"newpage"><a name="pagexxi" id="pagexxi">[xxi]</a></span>of the -eighteenth century."[C] Indeed, it may well be that we have in this -preface even a more true picture of Lissoy than that given in the -poem, which, as Mr William Black says in his monograph on -Goldsmith, "is there seen through the softening and beautifying -mist of years."</p> - -<p>Much more might be said of the characteristics of this little -book, which contains so much that reminds us not only of the style -but the matter of many of Goldsmith's writings. Miss Yonge says: -"There is a certain dry humour in some passages and a tenderness in -others that incline us much to the belief that it could come from -no one else but the writer of 'The Vicar of Wakefield' <span class= -"newpage"><a name="pagexxii" id="pagexxii">[xxii]</a></span>and -'The Deserted Village.' Indeed, we could almost imagine that Dr -Primrose himself had described the panic at the supposed ghost in -the church in the same tone as the ride to church, the family -portrait, or the gross of green spectacles.'[D] We find in "Goody -Two Shoes" every one of those distinctive qualities of Goldsmith's -writings which Mr William Black so well summarizes in the book -already referred to--"his genuine and tender pathos, that never at -any time verges on the affected or theatrical;" his "quaint, -delicate, delightful humour;" his "broader humour, that is not -afraid to provoke the wholesome laughter of mankind by dealing with -common and familiar ways <span class="newpage"><a name="pagexxiii" -id="pagexxiii">[xxiii]</a></span>and manners and men;" his -"choiceness of diction;" his "lightness and grace of touch, that -lend a charm even to" his "ordinary hack work."</p> - -<hr width="30%"> -<p>The reprint which is here presented is a photographic facsimile -of the earliest complete copy that we have been able to procure. -Judging from fragments of earlier editions in the possession of the -publishers, it would appear to be printed from exactly the same -types as the original issue of April 1765. The copy from which the -reprint is made was kindly lent to the publishers by Mr Ernest -Hartley Coleridge, whose collection at the South Kensington Museum -of eighteenth century books for children is well known. The actual -size of that book is 4 inches by 2-3/4, but it has been thought -better to print on somewhat larger paper. The original is bound in -the once familiar Dutch flowered and gilt pattern paper, and we had -hoped to present the <span class="newpage"><a name="pagexxiv" id= -"pagexxiv">[xxiv]</a></span>reprint in a similar cover, but it was -found impossible, as nothing like it could be procured, nor could -the manufacturers of the present day exactly reproduce it.</p> - -<p><small>[Footnote A: Essays from the <i>Times</i>. Robert -Southey. By Samuel Phillips, pp. 168-169, vol. i.]</small></p> - -<p><small>[Footnote B: <i>See</i> "The Works of Charles Lamb." By -Percy Fitzgerald, M.A., F.S.A. Vol. 1. Page 420. London: E. Moxon -& Co., 1876.]</small></p> - -<p><small>[Footnote C: "A Storehouse of Stories," p. 69, First -Series.]</small></p> - -<p><small>[Footnote D: "A Storehouse of Stories," First Series, -preface.]</small></p> - -<br> -<br> - <span class="newpage"><a name="pagexxv" id= -"pagexxv">[xxv]</a></span> - -<center><img src="images/image01.png" alt= -"Little Goody Two-Shoes"></center> - -<center><span class="newpage"><a name="page1" id= -"page1">[1]</a></span> - -<h3>T H E</h3> - -<h1>H I S T O R Y</h1> - -<h3>O F</h3> - -<h2>Little GOODY TWO-SHOES;</h2> - -Otherwise called,<br> -<h2>Mrs. MARGERY TWO-SHOES.</h2> - -<h3>W I T H</h3> -</center> - -<p>The Means by which she acquired her Learning and Wisdom, and in -consequence thereof her Estate; set forth at large for the Benefit -of those,</p> - -<p><i><small> Who from a State of Rags and Care<br> - And having Shoes but half a Pair;<br> - Their Fortune and their Fame would fix,<br> - And gallop in a Coach and Six.</small></i></p> - -<p>See the Original Manuscript in the <i>Vatican</i> at -<i>Rome</i>, and the Cuts by <i>Michael Angelo</i>. Illustrated -with the Comments of our great modern Critics.</p> - -<center> -<hr width="80%"> -<b>The T H I R D E D I T I O N.</b><br> -<hr width="80%"> -<h3><i>L O N D O N :</i></h3> - -Printed for J. N<small>EWBERY</small>, at the <i>Bible</i> and<br> -<i>Sun</i> in St. <i>Paul's-Church-Yard,</i> 1766.<br> -[Price Six-pence.]<br> -</center> - -<span class="newpage"><a name="page2" id="page2">[2]</a></span> -<br> -<br> -<br> -<br> -<center><span class="newpage"><a name="page3" id= -"page3">[3]</a></span> - -<h3>T O A L L</h3> - -<h2>Young Gentlemen and Ladies,</h2> - -Who are good, or intend to be good,<br> -<h1>This B O O K</h1> - -Is inscribed by<br> -<br> -Their old Friend<br> -<br> -In St. Paul's Church-yard.<br> -</center> - -<br> -<br> -<br> -<br> -<center><span class="newpage"><a name="page4" id= -"page4">[4]</a></span> - -<h3>The Renowned</h3> - -<h1>H I S T O R Y</h1> - -<h3>O F</h3> - -<h2>Little GOODY TWO-SHOES;</h2> - -Commonly called,<br> -<h2>Old GOODY TWO-SHOES.</h2> - -<hr width="80%"> -<b>P A R T I.</b><br> -<hr width="80%"> -</center> - -<p>INTRODUCTION. By -the Editor.</p> - -<p>All the World must allow, that <i>Two Shoes</i> was not her real -Name. No; her Father's Name was <i>Meanwell</i>; and he was for -many Years a considerable Farmer in the Parish where <i>Margery</i> -was born; but by the <span class="newpage"><a name="page5" id= -"page5">[5]</a></span>Misfortunes which he met with in Business, -and the wicked Persecutions of Sir <i>Timothy Gripe</i>, and an -over-grown Farmer called <i>Graspall</i>, he was effectually -ruined.</p> - -<p>The Case was thus. The Parish of <i>Mouldwell</i> where they -lived, had for many Ages been let by the Lord of the Manor into -twelve different Farms, in which the Tenants lived comfortably, -brought up large Families, and carefully supported the poor People -who laboured for them; until the Estate by Marriage and by Death -came into the Hands of Sir <i>Timothy</i>.</p> - -<p>This Gentleman, who loved himself better than all his -Neighbours, thought it less Trouble to write one Receipt for his -Rent than twelve, and Farmer <i>Graspall</i> offering to take all -the Farms as the Leases expired, Sir <i>Timothy</i> agreed with -him, and in Process of <span class="newpage"><a name="page6" id= -"page6">[6]</a></span>Time he was possessed of every Farm, but that -occupied by little <i>Margery's</i> Father; which he also wanted; -for as Mr. <i>Meanwell</i> was a charitable good Man, he stood up -for the Poor at the Parish Meetings, and was unwilling to have them -oppressed by Sir <i>Timothy</i>, and this avaricious -Farmer.--Judge, oh kind, humane and courteous Reader, what a -terrible Situation the Poor must be in, when this covetous Man was -perpetual Overseer, and every Thing for their Maintenance was drawn -from his hard Heart and cruel Hand. But he was not only perpetual -Overseer, but perpetual Church-warden; and judge, oh ye Christians, -what State the Church must be in, when supported by a Man without -Religion or Virtue. He was also perpetual Surveyor of the Highways, -and what Sort of Roads he kept up for the <span class="newpage"><a -name="page7" id="page7">[7]</a></span>Convenience of Travellers, -those best know who have had the Misfortune to be obliged to pass -thro' that Parish.--Complaints indeed were made, but to what -Purpose are Complaints, when brought against a Man, who can hunt, -drink, and smoak with the Lord of the Manor, who is also the -Justice of Peace?</p> - -<p>The Opposition which little <i>Margery's</i> Father made to this -Man's Tyranny, gave Offence to Sir <i>Timothy</i>, who endeavoured -to force him out of his Farm; and to oblige him to throw up the -Lease, ordered both a Brick Kiln and a Dog-kennel to be erected in -the Farmer's Orchard. This was contrary to Law, and a Suit was -commenced, in which <i>Margery's</i> Father got the better. The -same Offence was again committed three different Times, and as many -Actions brought, <span class="newpage"><a name="page8" id= -"page8">[8]</a></span>in all of which the Farmer had a Verdict and -Costs paid him; but notwithstanding these Advantages, the Law was -so expensive, that he was ruined in the Contest, and obliged to -give up all he had to his Creditors; which effectually answered the -Purpose of Sir <i>Timothy</i>, who erected those Nuisances in the -Farmer's Orchard with that Intention only. Ah, my dear Reader, we -brag of Liberty, and boast of our Laws: but the Blessings of the -one, and the Protection of the other, seldom fall to the Lot of the -Poor; and especially when a rich Man is their Adversary. How, in -the Name of Goodness, can a poor Wretch obtain Redress, when thirty -Pounds are insufficient to try his Cause? Where is he to find Money -to see Council, or how can he plead his Cause himself (even if he -<span class="newpage"><a name="page9" id="page9">[9]</a></span>was -permitted) when our Laws are so obscure, and so multiplied, that an -Abridgment of them cannot be contained in fifty Volumes in -Folio?</p> - -<img src="images/image02.png" width="270" height="210" alt= -"turned the Farmer, his Wife, little Margery, and her Brother out of Doors" - border="0" align="right"> - -<p>As soon as Mr. <i>Meanwell</i> had called together his -Creditors, Sir <i>Timothy</i> seized for a Year's Rent, and turned -the Farmer, his Wife, little <i>Margery</i>, and her Brother out of -Doors, without any of the Necessaries of Life to support them.</p> - -<p>[Illustration]</p> - -<span class="newpage"><a name="page10" id="page10">[10]</a></span> - -<p>This elated the Heart of Mr. <i>Graspall</i>, this crowned his -Hopes, and filled the Measure of his Iniquity; for besides -gratifying his Revenge, this Man's Overthrow gave him the sole -Dominion of the Poor, whom he depressed and abused in a Manner too -horrible to mention.</p> - -<p><i>Margery's</i> Father flew into another Parish for Succour, -and all those who were able to move left their Dwellings and sought -Employment elsewhere, as they found it would be impossible to live -under the Tyranny of two such People. The very old, the very lame -and the blind were obliged to stay behind, and whether they were -starved, or what became of them, History does not say; but the -Character of the great Sir <i>Timothy</i>, and his avaricious -Tenant, were so infamous, that nobody would work for them by the -Day, and <span class="newpage"><a name="page11" id= -"page11">[11]</a></span>Servants were afraid to engage themselves -by the Year, lest any unforeseen Accident should leave them -Parishioners in a Place, where they knew they must perish -miserably; so that great Part of the Land lay untilled for some -Years, which was deemed a just Reward for such diabolical -Proceedings.</p> - -<p>But what, says the Reader, can occasion all this? Do you intend -this for Children, Mr. N<small>EWBERY</small>? Why, do you suppose -this is written by Mr. N<small>EWBERY</small>, Sir? This may come -from another Hand. This is not the Book, Sir, mentioned in the -Title, but the Introduction to that Book; and it is intended, Sir, -not for those Sort of Children, but for Children of six Feet high, -of which, as my Friend has justly observed, there are many Millions -in the Kingdom; and these <span class="newpage"><a name="page12" -id="page12">[12]</a></span>Reflections, Sir, have been rendered -necessary, by the unaccountable and diabolical Scheme which many -Gentlemen now give into, of laying a Number of Farms into one, and -very often of a whole Parish into one Farm; which in the End must -reduce the common People to a State of Vassalage, worse than that -under the Barons of old, or of the Clans in <i>Scotland</i>; and -will in Time depopulate the Kingdom. But as you are tired of the -Subject, I shall take myself away, and you may visit <i>Little -Margery</i>. So, Sir, your Servant,</p> - -<p align="right">The E<small>DITOR</small>.</p> - -<br> -<br> -<br> -<br> -<center><span class="newpage"><a name="page13" id= -"page13">[13]</a></span> - -<h3>C H A P. I.</h3> - -<p><i>How and about Little</i> Margery <i>and her</i> Brother.</p> -</center> - -<center><img src="images/image03.png" width="256" height="209" alt= -"Margery' father seized with a violent Fever" border="0"></center> - -<p>Care and Discontent shortened the Days of Little -<i>Margery's</i> Father.--He was forced from his Family, and seized -with a violent Fever in a Place where Dr. <i>James's</i> Powder was -not to be had, and where he died miserably. <i>Margery's</i> poor -Mother survived the Loss of her Husband but a few Days, and died of -a broken Heart, leaving <i>Margery</i> and her little Brother to -the wide World; but, poor Woman, it would have melted your Heart to -have seen how frequently she heaved up her Head, while she lay -speechless, to survey with languishing Looks her little Orphans, -<span class="newpage"><a name="page14" id= -"page14">[14]</a></span>as much as to say, <i>Do Tommy, do Margery, -come with me</i>. They cried, poor Things, and she sighed away her -Soul; and I hope is happy.</p> - -<p>It would both have excited your Pity, and have done your Heart -good, to have seen how fond these two little ones were of each -other, and how, Hand in Hand, they trotted about. Pray see -them.</p> - -<center><img src="images/image04.png" width="260" height="218" alt= -"Hand in Hand" border="0"></center> - -<span class="newpage"><a name="page15" id="page15">[15]</a></span> - -<p>They were both very ragged, and <i>Tommy</i> had two Shoes, but -<i>Margery</i> had but one. They had nothing, poor Things, to -support them (not being in their own Parish) but what they picked -from the Hedges, or got from the poor People, and they lay every -Night in a Barn. Their Relations took no Notice of them; no, they -were rich, and ashamed to own <span class="newpage"><a name= -"page16" id="page16">[16]</a></span>such a poor little ragged Girl -as <i>Margery</i>, and such a dirty little curl-pated Boy as -<i>Tommy</i>. Our Relations and Friends seldom take Notice of us -when we are poor; but as we grow rich they grow fond. And this will -always be the Case, while People love Money better than Virtue, or -better than they do G<small>OD</small> Almighty. But such wicked -Folks, who love nothing but Money, and are proud and despise the -Poor, never come to any good in the End, as we shall see by and -by.</p> - -<br> -<br> -<br> -<br> -<center> -<h3>C H A P. II.</h3> - -<p><i>How and about Mr.</i> Smith.</p> -</center> - -<center><img src="images/image05.png" width="268" height="211" alt= -"Mr. Smith" border="0"></center> - -<p>Mr. <i>Smith</i> was a very worthy Clergyman, who lived in the -Parish where Little <i>Margery</i> and <span class="newpage"><a -name="page17" id="page17">[17]</a></span><i>Tommy</i> were born; -and having a Relation come to see him, who was a charitable good -Man, he sent for these Children to him. The Gentleman ordered -Little <i>Margery</i> a new Pair of Shoes, gave Mr. <i>Smith</i> -some Money to buy her Cloathes; and said, he would take -<i>Tommy</i> and make him a little Sailor; and accordingly had a -Jacket and Trowsers made for him, in which he now appears. Pray -look at him.</p> - -<span class="newpage"><a name="page18" id="page18">[18]</a></span> - -<p>After some Days the Gentleman intended to go to <i>London</i>, -and take little <i>Tommy</i> with him, of whom you will know more -by and by, for we shall at a proper Time present you with some Part -of his History, his Travels and Adventures.</p> - -<img src="images/image06.png" width="171" height="139" alt= -"Tommy wiped off her Tears with the End of his Jacket" border="0" -align="right"> - -<p>The Parting between these two little Children was very -affecting, <i>Tommy</i> cried, and <i>Margery</i> cried, and they -kissed each other an hundred Times. At last <i>Tommy</i> thus wiped -off her Tears <span class="newpage"><a name="page19" id= -"page19">[19]</a></span>with the End of his Jacket, and bid her cry -no more, for that he would come to her again, when he returned from -Sea. However, as they were so very fond, the Gentleman would not -suffer them to take Leave of each other; but told <i>Tommy</i> he -should ride out with him, and come back at Night. When night came, -Little <i>Margery</i> grew very uneasy about her Brother, and after -sitting up as late as Mr. <i>Smith</i> would let her, she went -crying to Bed.</p> - -<br> -<br> -<br> -<br> -<center> -<h3>C H A P. III.</h3> - -<p><i>How Little</i> Margery <i>obtained the Name of</i><br> -Goody Two-Shoes, <i>and what happened in the Parish.</i></p> -</center> - -<img src="images/image07.png" width="369" height="297" alt= -"Two Shoes, Mame, see two Shoes" border="0" align="left"> - -<p>As soon as Little <i>Margery</i> got up in the Morning, which -was <span class="newpage"><a name="page20" id= -"page20">[20]</a></span>very early, she ran all round the Village, -crying for her Brother; and after some Time returned greatly -distressed. However, at this Instant, the Shoemaker very -opportunely came in with the new Shoes, for which she had been -measured by the Gentleman's Order.</p> - -<p>Nothing could have supported Little <i>Margery</i> under the -Affliction she was in for the Loss of her Brother, but the Pleasure -she took in her <i>two Shoes</i>. She ran out to Mrs. <i>Smith</i> -as soon as they were put on, and stroking down her ragged Apron -thus, <span class="newpage"><a name="page21" id= -"page21">[21]</a></span>cried out, <i>Two Shoes, Mame, see two -Shoes</i>. And so she behaved to all the People she met, and by -that Means obtained the Name of <i>Goody Two-Shoes</i>, though her -Playmates called her <i>Old Goody Two-Shoes</i>.</p> - -<p>Little <i>Margery</i> was very happy in being with Mr. and Mrs. -<i>Smith</i>, who were very charitable and good to her, and had -agreed to breed her up with <span class="newpage"><a name="page22" -id="page22">[22]</a></span>their Family; but as soon as that Tyrant -of the Parish, that <i>Graspall</i>, heard of her being there, he -applied first to Mr. <i>Smith</i>, and threatened to reduce his -Tythes if he kept her; and after that he spoke to Sir -<i>Timothy</i>, who sent Mr. <i>Smith</i> a peremptory Message by -his Servant, that <i>he should send back</i> Meanwell's <i>Girl to -be kept by her Relations, and not harbour her in the Parish</i>. -This so distressed Mr. <i>Smith</i> that he shed Tears, and cried, -<i>Lord have Mercy on the Poor!</i></p> - -<p>The Prayers of the Righteous fly upwards, and reach unto the -Throne of Heaven, as will be seen in the Sequel.</p> - -<p>Mrs. <i>Smith</i> was also greatly concerned at being thus -obliged to discard poor Little <i>Margery</i>. She kissed her and -cried; <span class="newpage"><a name="page23" id= -"page23">[23]</a></span>as also did Mr. <i>Smith</i>, but they were -obliged to send her away; for the People who had ruined her Father -could at any Time have ruined them.</p> - -<center><img src="images/image08.png" width="386" height="290" alt= -"Mr. Smith kissed her" border="0"></center> - -<br> -<br> -<br> -<br> -<center><span class="newpage"><a name="page24" id= -"page24">[24]</a></span> - -<h3>C H A P. IV.</h3> - -<p><i>How Little</i> Margery <i>learned to read,<br> -and by Degrees taught others.</i></p> -</center> - -<p>Little <i>Margery</i> saw how good, and how wise Mr. -<i>Smith</i> was, and concluded, that this was owing to his great -Learning, therefore she wanted of all Things to learn to read. For -this Purpose she used to meet the little Boys and Girls as they -came from School, borrow their Books, and sit down and read till -they returned;</p> - -<center><img src="images/image09.png" width="354" height="293" alt= -"Boys and Girls sit down and read" border="0"></center> - -<span class="newpage"><a name="page25" id="page25">[25]</a></span> - -<p>By this Means she soon got more Learning than any of her -Playmates, and laid the following Scheme for instructing those who -were more ignorant than herself. She found, that only the following -Letters were required to spell all the Words in the World; but as -some of these Letters are large and some small, she with<span -class="newpage"><a name="page26" id="page26">[26]</a></span> her -Knife cut out of several Pieces of Wood ten Setts of each of -these:</p> - -<center>a b c d -e f g h -i j k l -m n o<br> -p q r (s) s - t u v w - x y z.<br> -</center> - -<p><small>[Post-processor's note: (s) is an old-English style -non-terminating letter "s".]</small></p> - -<center>And six Setts of these:<br> -<br> -A B C D -E F G H -I K L M -N O<br> -P Q R S -T U V W -X Y Z.<br> -</center> - -<p>And having got an old Spelling-Book, she made her Companions set -up all the Words they wanted to spell, and after that she taught -them to compose Sentences. You know what a Sentence is, my Dear, -<i>I will be good</i>, is a Sentence; and is made up, as you see, -of several Words.</p> - -<p>The usual Manner of Spelling, or carrying on the Game, as they -called <span class="newpage"><a name="page27" id= -"page27">[27]</a></span>it, was this: Suppose the Word to be spelt -was Plumb Pudding (and who can suppose a better) the Children were -placed in a Circle, and the first brought the Letter <i>P</i>, the -next <i>l</i>, the next <i>u</i>, the next <i>m</i>, and so on till -the Whole was spelt; and if any one brought a wrong Letter, he was -to pay a Fine, or play no more. This was at their Play; and every -Morning she used to go round to teach the Children with these -Rattle-traps in a Basket, as you see in the Print.</p> - -<center><img src="images/image10.png" width="275" height="212" alt= -"Rattle-traps in a Basket" border="0"></center> - -<span class="newpage"><a name="page28" id="page28">[28]</a></span> - -<p>I once went her Rounds with her, and was highly diverted, as you -may be, if you please to look into the next Chapter.</p> - -<br> -<br> -<br> -<br> -<center> -<h3>C H A P. V.</h3> - -<p><i>How Little</i> Two-Shoes <i>became a trotting Tutoress<br> -and how she taught her young Pupils.</i></p> -</center> - -<p>It was about seven o'Clock in the Morning when we set out on -this <span class="newpage"><a name="page29" id= -"page29">[29]</a></span>important Business, and the first House we -came to was Farmer <i>Wilson's</i>. See here it is.</p> - -<center><img src="images/image11.png" width="344" height="285" alt= -"Farmer Wilson's house" border="0"></center> - -<p>Here <i>Margery</i> stopped, and ran up to the Door, <i>Tap, -tap, tap</i>. Who's there? Only little goody <i>Two-Shoes</i>, -answered <i>Margery</i>, come to teach <i>Billy</i>. Oh Little -<i>Goody</i>, says Mrs. <i>Wilson</i>, with Pleasure in her Face, I -am glad to see you, <i>Billy</i> wants <span class="newpage"><a -name="page30" id="page30">[30]</a></span>you sadly, for he has -learned all his Lesson. Then out came the little Boy. <i>How do -doody Two-Shoes</i>, says he, not able to speak plain. Yet this -little Boy had learned all his Letters; for she threw down this -Alphabet mixed together thus:</p> - -<span class="newpage"><a name="page31" id="page31">[31]</a></span> - -<center>b d f h -k m o q -s u w y -z [s]<br> -a c e g -i l n p -r t v x j<br> -<br> -</center> - -<p>and he picked them up, called them by their right Names, and put -them all in order thus:</p> - -<center>a b c d -e f g h -i j k l -m n o<br> -p q r (s) -s t u v -w x y z.<br> -<br> -</center> - -<p><small>[Post-processor's note: (s) is an old-English style -non-terminating letter "s".]</small></p> - -<p>She then threw down the Alphabet of Capital Letters in the -Manner you here see them.</p> - -<center>B D F H -K M O Q -S U W Y Z<br> -A C E G -I L N P -R T V X J.<br> -<br> -</center> - -<p>and he picked them all up, and having told their Names, placed -them thus:</p> - -<center>A B C D -E F G H -I J K L M<br> -N O P Q -R S T U -V W X Y Z.<br> -<br> -</center> - -<p>Now, pray little Reader, take this Bodkin, and see if you can -point out the Letters from these mixed Alphabets, and tell how they -should be placed as well as little Boy <i>Billy</i>.</p> - -<p>The next Place we came to was Farmer <i>Simpson's</i>, and here -it is.</p> - -<span class="newpage"><a name="page32" id="page32">[32]</a></span> - -<center><img src="images/image12.png" width="344" height="277" alt= -"Farmer Simpson's house" border="0"></center> - -<p><i>Bow wow, wow</i>, says the Dog at the Door. Sirrah, says his -Mistress, what do you bark at Little <i>Two-Shoes</i>. Come in -<i>Madge</i>; here, <i>Sally</i> wants you sadly, she has learned -all her Lesson. Then out came the little one: So <i>Madge!</i> say -she; so <i>Sally!</i> answered the other, have you learned your -Lesson? Yes, that's what I have, replied the little one in <span -class="newpage"><a name="page33" id="page33">[33]</a></span>the -Country Manner; and immediately taking the Letters she set up these -Syllables:</p> - -<center>ba be bi bo -bu, ca ce ci -co cu<br> -da de di do -du, fa fe fi -so fu.<br> -<br> -</center> - -<p>and gave them their exact Sounds as she composed them; after -which she set up the following;</p> - -<center>ac ec ic oc -uc, ad ed id -od ud<br> -af ef if of -uf, ag eg ig -og ug.<br> -<br> -</center> - -<p>And pronounced them likewise. She then sung the Cuzz's Chorus -(which may be found in the <i>Little Pretty Play Thing</i>, -published by Mr. -N<small> E W B E R Y</small>) and to -the same Tune to which it is there set.</p> - -<p>After this, Little <i>Two-Shoes</i> taught her to spell Words of -one Syllable, <span class="newpage"><a name="page34" id= -"page34">[34]</a></span>and she soon set up Pear, Plumb. Top, Ball, -Pin, Puss, Dog, Hog, Fawn, Buck, Doe, Lamb, Sheep, Ram, Cow, Bull, -Cock, Hen, and many more.</p> - -<p>The next Place we came to was <i>Gaffer Cook's</i> Cottage; -there you see it before you.</p> - -<center><img src="images/image13.png" width="349" height="278" alt= -"Gaffer Cook's Cottage" border="0"></center> - -<p>Here a number of poor Children were met to learn; who all came -<span class="newpage"><a name="page35" id= -"page35">[35]</a></span>round Little <i>Margery</i> at once; and, -having pulled out her Letters, she asked the little Boy next her, -what he had for Dinner? Who answered, <i>Bread</i>. (the poor -Children in many Places live very hard) Well then, says she, set -the first Letter. He put up the Letter B, to which the next added -r, and the next e, the next a, the next d, and it stood thus, -<i>Bread</i>.</p> - -<p>And what had you <i>Polly Comb</i> for your Dinner? -<i>Apple-pye</i> answered the little Girl: Upon which the next in -Turn set up a great A, the two next a p each, and so on till the -two Words Apple and Pye were united and stood thus, -<i>Apple-pye</i>.</p> - -<p>The next had <i>Potatoes</i>, the next <i>Beef and Turnip</i> -which were spelt with many others, till the Game <span class= -"newpage"><a name="page36" id="page36">[36]</a></span>of Spelling -was finished. She then set them another Task, and we proceeded.</p> - -<p>The next Place we came to was Farmer <i>Thompson's</i>, where -there were a great many little ones waiting for her.</p> - -<p>So little Mrs. <i>Goody Two-Shoes</i>, says one of them, where -have you been so long? I have been teaching, says she, longer than -I intended, and am afraid I am come too soon for you now. No, but -indeed you are not, replied the other; for I have got my Lesson, -and so has <i>Sally Dawson</i>, and so has <i>Harry Wilson</i>, and -so we have all; and they capered about as if they were overjoyed to -see her. Why then, says she, you are all very good, and -G<small>OD</small> Almighty will love you; so let us begin our -Lessons. They all huddled round <span class="newpage"><a name= -"page37" id="page37">[37]</a></span>her, and though at the other -Place they were employed about Words and Syllables, here we had -People of much greater Understanding who dealt only in -Sentences.</p> - -<p>The Letters being brought upon the Table, one of the little ones -set up the following Sentence.</p> - -<p><i>The Lord have Mercy upon me, and grant that I may be always -good, and say my Prayers, and love the Lord my God with all my -Heart, with all my Soul, and with all my Strength; and honour the -King, and all good Men in Authority under him.</i></p> - -<p>Then the next took the Letters, and composed this Sentence.</p> - -<p><i>Lord have Mercy upon me, and grant that I may love my -Neighbour as myself, and do unto all Men as I would have them do -unto me, and tell no Lies; but be honest and just in all my -Dealings.</i></p> - -<span class="newpage"><a name="page38" id="page38">[38]</a></span> - -<p>The third composed the following Sentence.</p> - -<p><i>The Lord have Mercy upon me, and grant that I may honour my -Father and Mother, and love my Brothers and Sisters, Relations and -Friends, and all my Playmates, and every Body, and endeavour to -make them happy.</i></p> - -<p>The fourth composed the following.</p> - -<p><i>I pray</i> G<small>OD</small> <i>to bless this whole Company, -and all our Friends, and all our Enemies.</i></p> - -<p>To this last <i>Polly Sullen</i> objected, and said, truly, she -did not know why she should pray for her Enemies? Not pray for your -Enemies, says Little <i>Margery</i>; yes, you must, you are no -Christian, if you don't forgive your Enemies, and do Good for Evil. -<i>Polly</i> still pouted; upon which Little <i>Margery</i> said, -though she was <span class="newpage"><a name="page39" id= -"page39">[39]</a></span>poor, and obliged to lie in a Barn, she -would not keep Company with such a naughty, proud, perverse Girl as -<i>Polly</i>; and was going away; however the Difference was made -up, and she set them to compose the following</p> - -<br> -<center><big>L E S -S O N S</big> - -<p>For the -C<small> O N -D U C T</small> - of L I F E.</p> - -<p>L<small> E S -S O N</small> I.</p> -</center> - -<p> He that will thrive,<br> - Must rise by Five.<br> - He that hath thriv'n,<br> - May lie till Seven.<br> - Truth may be blam'd,<br> - But cannot be sham'd.<br> - Tell me with whom you go;<br> - And I'll tell what you do.<br> -<span class="newpage"><a name="page40" id="page40">[40]</a></span> - A Friend in your Need,<br> - Is a Friend indeed.<br> - They ne'er can be wise,<br> - Who good Counsel despise.</p> - -<center> -<p>L<small> E S -S O N</small> II.</p> -</center> - -<p> A wise Head makes a close Mouth.<br> - Don't burn your Lips with another Man's Broth.<br> - Wit is Folly, unless a wise Man hath the keeping of -it.<br> - Use soft Words and hard Arguments.<br> - Honey catches more Flies than Vinegar.<br> - To forget a Wrong is the best Revenge.<br> - Patience is a Plaister for all Sores.<br> - Where Pride goes, Shame will follow.<br> - When Vice enters the Room, Vengeance is near the -Door.<br> -<span class="newpage"><a name="page41" id="page41">[41]</a></span> - Industry is Fortune's right Hand, and Frugality her -left.<br> - Make much of Three-pence, or you ne'er will be worth a -Groat.</p> - -<center> -<p>L<small> E S -S O N</small> III.</p> -</center> - -<p> A Lie stands upon one Leg, but Truth upon two.<br> - When a Man talks much, believe but half what he -says.<br> - Fair Words butter no Parsnips.<br> - Bad Company poisons the Mind.<br> - A covetous Man is never satisfied.<br> - Abundance, like Want, ruins many.<br> - Contentment is the best Fortune.<br> - A contented Mind is a continual Feast.</p> - -<center> -<p>A L<small> E S -S O N</small> in -Religion.</p> -</center> - -<p> Love G<small>OD</small>, for he is good.<br> - Fear G<small>OD</small>, for he is just.<br> -<span class="newpage"><a name="page42" id="page42">[42]</a></span> - Pray to G<small>OD</small>, for all good Things come -from him.<br> - Praise G<small>OD</small>, for great is his Mercy -towards us, and wonderful are all his Works.<br> - Those who strive to be good, have G<small>OD</small> on -their Side.<br> - Those who have G<small>OD</small> for their Friend, -shall want nothing.<br> - Confess your Sins to G<small>OD</small>, and if you -repent he will forgive you.<br> - Remember that all you do, is done in the Presence of -G<small>OD</small>.<br> - The Time will come, my Friends, when we must give<br> - Account to G<small>OD</small>, how we on Earth did -live.</p> - -<center> -<p>A Moral -L<small> E S -S O N</small>.</p> -</center> - -<p> A good Boy will make a good Man.<br> - Honour your Parents, and the World will honour you.<br> -<span class="newpage"><a name="page43" id="page43">[43]</a></span> - Love your Friends, and your Friends will love you.<br> - He that swims in Sin, will sink in Sorrow.<br> - Learn to live, as you would wish to die.<br> - As you expect all Men should deal by -you:<br> - So deal by them, and give each Man his -Due.</p> - -<p>As we were returning Home, we saw a Gentleman, who was very ill, -sitting under a shady Tree at the Corner of his Rookery. Though -ill, he began to joke with Little <i>Margery</i>, and said, -laughingly, so, <i>Goody Two-Shoes</i>, they tell me you are a -cunning little Baggage; pray, can you tell me what I shall do to -get well? Yes, Sir, says she, go to Bed when <span class= -"newpage"><a name="page44" id="page44">[44]</a></span>your Rooks -do. You see they are going to Rest already:</p> - -<center><img src="images/image14.png" width="351" height="291" alt= -"they are going to Rest" border="0"></center> - -<p>Do you so likewise, and get up with them in the morning; earn, -as they do, every Day what you eat, and eat and drink no more than -you earn; and you'll get Health and keep it. What should induce the -Rooks to frequent Gentlemens Houses only, but to tell them how to -lead a <span class="newpage"><a name="page45" id= -"page45">[45]</a></span>prudent Life? They never build over -Cottages or Farm-houses, because they see, that these People know -how to live without their Admonition.</p> - -<p><i> Thus Health and Wit you may improve,<br> - Taught by the Tenants of the Grove.</i></p> - -<p>The Gentleman laughing gave <i>Margery</i> Sixpence; and told -her she was a sensible Hussey.</p> - -<br> -<br> -<br> -<br> -<center> -<h3>C H A P. VI.</h3> - -<p><i>How the whole Parish was frighted.</i></p> -</center> - -<p>Who does not know Lady <i>Ducklington</i>, or who does not know -that she was buried at this Parish Church?</p> - -<span class="newpage"><a name="page46" id="page46">[xxx]</a></span> - - -<center><img src="images/image15.png" width="366" height="284" alt= -"Parish Church" border="0"></center> - -<p>Well, I never saw so grand a Funeral in all my Life; but the -Money they squandered away, would have been better laid out in -little Books for Children, or in Meat, Drink, and Cloaths for the -Poor.</p> - -<img src="images/image16.png" width="299" height="233" alt= -"Fine Hearse" border="0" align="left"> - -<p>This if a fine Hearse indeed, and the nodding Plumes on the -Horses <span class="newpage"><a name="page47" id= -"page47">[47]</a></span>look very grand; but what End does that -answer, otherwise than to display the Pride of the Living, or the -Vanity of the Dead. Fie upon such Folly, say I, and Heaven grant -that those who want more Sense may have it.</p> - -<p>But all the Country round came to see the Burying, and it was -late before the Corpse was interred. <span class="newpage"><a name= -"page48" id="page48">[48]</a></span>After which, in the Night, or -rather about Four o'Clock in the Morning, the Bells were heard to -jingle in the Steeple, which frightened the People prodigiously, -who all thought it was Lady <i>Ducklington</i> 's Ghost dancing -among the Bell-ropes. The People flocked to <i>Will Dobbins</i> the -Clerk, and wanted him to go and see what it was; but <i>William</i> -said, he was sure it was a Ghost, and that he would not offer to -open the Door. At length Mr. <i>Long</i> the Rector, hearing such -an Uproar in the Village, went to the Clerk, to know why he did not -go into the Church; and see who was there. I go, Sir, says -<i>William</i>, why the Ghost would frighten me out of my -Wits.--Mrs. <i>Dobbins</i> too cried, and laying hold of her -Husband said, he should not be eat up by the Ghost. A Ghost, you -Blockheads, says Mr. <span class="newpage"><a name="page49" id= -"page49">[49]</a></span><i>Long</i> in a Pet, did either of you -ever see a Ghost, or know any Body that did? Yes, says the Clerk, -my Father did once in the Shape of a Windmill, and it walked all -round the Church in a white Sheet, with Jack Boots on, and had a -Gun by its Side instead of a Sword. A fine Picture of a Ghost -truly, says Mr. <i>Long</i>, give me the Key of the Church, you -Monkey; for I tell you there is no such Thing now, whatever may -have been formerly.--Then taking the Key, he went to the Church, -all the people following him. As soon as he had opened the Door, -what Sort of a Ghost do ye think appeared? Why Little -<i>Two-Shoes</i>, who being weary, had fallen asleep in one of the -Pews during the Funeral Service, and was shut in all Night. She -immediately asked Mr. <i>Long</i> 's Pardon for the <span class= -"newpage"><a name="page50" id="page50">[50]</a></span>Trouble she -had given him, told him, she had been locked into the Church, and -said, she should not have rung the Bells, but that she was very -cold, and hearing Farmer <i>Boult</i> 's Man go whistling by with -his Horses, she was in Hopes he would have went to the Clerk for -the Key to let her out.</p> - -<center><img src="images/image17.png" width="371" height="290" alt= -"Sleepy Two-Shoes" border="0"></center> - -<br> -<br> -<br> -<br> -<center><span class="newpage"><a name="page51" id= -"page51">[51]</a></span> - -<h3>C H A P. VII.</h3> - -<p><i>Containing an Account of all the Spirits,<br> -or Ghosts, she saw in the Church.</i></p> -</center> - -<p>The People were ashamed to ask Little <i>Madge</i> any Questions -before Mr. <i>Long</i>, but as soon as he was gone, they all got -round her to satisfy their Curiousity, and desired she would give -them a particular Account of all that she had heard and seen.</p> - -<center> -<h3>Her T A L E.</h3> -</center> - -<p>I went to the Church, said she, as most of you did last Night, -to see the Burying, and being very weary, I sate me down in Mr. -<i>Jones</i>'s Pew, <span class="newpage"><a name="page52" id= -"page52">[52]</a></span>and fell fast asleep. At Eleven of the -Clock I awoke; which I believe was in some measure occasioned by -the Clock's striking, for I heard it. I started up, and could not -at first tell where I was; but after some Time I recollected the -Funeral, and soon found that I was shut in the Church. It was -dismal dark, and I could see nothing; but while I was standing in -the Pew, something jumped up upon me behind, and laid, as I -thought, its Hands over my Shoulders.----I own, I was a little -afraid at first; however, I considered that I had always been -constant at Prayers and at Church, and that I had done nobody any -Harm, but had endeavoured to do what Good I could; and then, -thought I, what have I to fear? yet I kneeled down to say my -Prayers. As soon as I was on my Knees <span class="newpage"><a -name="page53" id="page53">[53]</a></span>something very cold, as -cold as Marble, ay, as cold as Ice, touched my Neck, which made me -start; however, I continued my Prayers, and having begged -Protection from Almighty G<small>OD</small>, I found my Spirits -come, and I was sensible that I had nothing to fear; for -G<small>OD</small> Almighty protects not only all those who are -good, but also all those who endeavour to be good.----Nothing can -withstand the Power, and exceed the Goodness of G<small>OD</small> -Almighty. Armed with the Confidence of his Protection, I walked -down the Church Isle, when I heard something, pit pat, pit pat, pit -pat, come after me, and something touched my Hand, which seemed as -cold as a Marble Monument. I could not think what this was, yet I -knew it could not hurt me, and therefore I made myself easy, but -being very cold, and <span class="newpage"><a name="page54" id= -"page54">[54]</a></span>the Church being paved with Stone, which -was very damp, I felt my Way as well as I could to the Pulpit, in -doing which something brushed by me, and almost threw me down. -However I was not frightened, for I knew, that G<small>OD</small> -Almighty would suffer nothing to hurt me.</p> - -<p>At last, I found out the Pulpit, and having shut too the Door, I -laid me down on the Mat and Cushion to sleep; when something thrust -and pulled the Door, as I thought for Admittance, which prevented -my going to sleep. At last it cries, <i>Bow, wow, wow</i>; and I -concluded it must be Mr. <i>Saunderson</i> 's Dog, which had -followed me from their House to Church, so I opened the Door, and -called <i>Snip, Snip</i>, and the Dog jumped up upon me -immediately. After this <i>Snip</i> and I lay down together, <span -class="newpage"><a name="page55" id="page55">[55]</a></span>and had -a most comfortable Nap; for when I awoke again it was almost light. -I then walked up and down all the Isles of the Church to keep -myself warm; and though I went into the Vault, and trod on Lady -<i>Ducklington's</i> Coffin, I saw no Ghost, and I believe it was -owing to the Reason Mr. <i>Long</i> has given you, namely, that -there is no such Thing to be seen. As to my Part, I would as soon -lie all Night in the Church as in any other Place; and I am sure -that any little Boy or Girl, who is good, and loves -G<small>OD</small> Almighty, and keeps his Commandments, may as -safely lie in the Church, or the Church-yard, as any where else, if -they take Care not to get Cold; for I am sure there are no Ghosts, -either to hurt, or to frighten them; though any one possessed of -Fear <span class="newpage"><a name="page56" id= -"page56">[56]</a></span>might have taken Neighbour -<i>Saunderson</i> 's Dog with his cold Nose for a Ghost; and if -they had not been undeceived, as I was, would never have thought -otherwise. All the Company acknowledged the Justness of the -Observation, and thanked Little <i>Two-Shoes</i> for her -Advice.</p> - -<center>R E F -L E C T -I O N.</center> - -<br> -<br> -<p>After this, my dear Children, I hope you will not believe any -foolish Stories that ignorant, weak, or designing People may tell -you about <i>Ghosts</i>; for the Tales of <i>Ghosts</i>, -<i>Witches</i>, and <i>Fairies</i>, are the Frolicks of a -distempered Brain. No wise Man ever saw either of them. Little -<i>Margery</i> you see was not afraid; no, she had <i>good -Sense</i>, and a <i>good Conscience</i>, which is a Cure for all -these imaginary Evils.</p> - -<!--START HERE 084.PNG Folio 57--> -<br> -<br> -<br> -<br> -<center><span class="newpage"><a name="page57" id= -"page57">[57]</a></span> - -<h3>C H A P. - VIII.</h3> - -<p><i>Of something which happened to Little</i> Two-Shoes<br> -<i>in a Barn, more dreadful than the Ghost in the Church;<br> -and how she returned Good for Evil to her Enemy Sir</i> -Timothy.</p> -</center> - -<img src="images/image18.png" width="336" height="293" alt= -"Farmer's Barn" border="0" align="right"> - -<p>Some Days after this a more dreadful Accident befel Little -<i>Madge</i>. She happened to be coming late from teaching, when it -rained, thundered, and lightened, and therefore she took Shelter in -a Farmer's Barn <span class="newpage"><a name="page58" id= -"page58">[58]</a></span>at a Distance from the Village. Soon after, -the Tempest drove in four Thieves, who, not seeing such a little -creep-mouse Girl as <i>Two-Shoes</i>, lay down on the Hay next to -her, and began to talk over their Exploits, and to settle Plans for -future Robberies. Little <i>Margery</i> on hearing them, covered -herself with Straw. To be sure she was sadly frighted, but her good -<span class="newpage"><a name="page59" id= -"page59">[59]</a></span>Sense taught her, that the only Security -she had was in keeping herself concealed; therefore she laid very -still, and breathed very softly. About Four o'Clock these wicked -People came to a Resolution to break both Sir <i>William Dove's</i> -House, and Sir <i>Timothy Gripe's</i>, and by Force of Arms to -carry off all their Money, Plate and Jewels; but as it was thought -then too late, they agreed to defer it till the next Night. After -laying this Scheme they all set out upon their Pranks, which -greatly rejoiced <i>Margery</i>, as it would any other little Girl -in her Situation. Early in the Morning she went to Sir -<i>William</i>, and told him the whole of their Conversation. Upon -which, he asked her Name, gave her Something, and bid her call at -his House the Day following. She also went to Sir <i>Timothy</i> -<span class="newpage"><a name="page60" id= -"page60">[60]</a></span>notwithstanding he had used her so ill; for -she knew it was her Duty to <i>do Good for Evil</i>. As soon as he -was informed who she was, he took no Notice of her; upon which she -desired to speak to Lady <i>Gripe</i>; and having informed her -Ladyship of the Affair, she went her Way. This Lady had more Sense -than her Husband, which indeed is not a singular Case; for instead -of despising Little <i>Margery</i> and her Information, she -privately set People to guard the House. The Robbers divided -themselves, and went about the Time mentioned to both Houses, and -were surprized by the Guards, and taken. Upon examining these -Wretches, one of which turned Evidence, both Sir <i>William</i> and -Sir <i>Timothy</i> found that they owed their Lives to the -Discovery made by Little <i>Margery</i>, and the first took <span -class="newpage"><a name="page61" id="page61">[61]</a></span>great -Notice of her, and would no longer let her lie in a Barn; but Sir -<i>Timothy</i> only said, that he was ashamed to owe his Life to -the Daughter of one who was his Enemy; so true it is, <i>that a -proud Man seldom forgives those he has injured</i>.</p> - -<br> -<br> -<br> -<br> -<center> -<h3>C H A P. IX.</h3> - -<p><i>How Little</i> Margery <i>was made Principal of a Country -College.</i></p> -</center> - -<p>Mrs. <i>Williams</i>, of whom I have given a particular Account -in my <i>New Year's Gift</i>, and who kept a College for -instructing little Gentlemen and Ladies in the Science of A, B, C, -was at this Time very old and infirm, and wanted to decline that -important Trust. This being told to Sir <i>William Dove</i>, who -lived <span class="newpage"><a name="page62" id= -"page62">[62]</a></span>in the Parish, he sent for Mrs. -<i>Williams</i>, and desired she would examine Little -<i>Two-Shoes</i>, and see whether she was qualified for the -Office.----This was done, and Mrs. <i>Williams</i> made the -following Report in her Favour, namely, <i>that Little</i> Margery -<i>was the best Scholar, and had the best Head, and the best Heart -of any one she had examined</i>. All the Country had a great -Opinion of Mrs. <i>Williams</i>, and this Character gave them also -a great Opinion of Mrs. <i>Margery</i>; for so we must now call -her.</p> - -<p>This Mrs. <i>Margery</i> thought the happiest Period of her -Life; but more Happiness was in Store for her. G<small>OD</small> -Almighty heaps up Blessings for all those who love him, and though -for a Time he may suffer them to be poor and distressed, and hide -his good Purposes from human Sight, yet in <span class="newpage"><a -name="page63" id="page63">[63]</a></span>the End they are generally -crowned with Happiness here, and no one can doubt of their being so -hereafter.</p> - -<p>On this Occasion the following Hymn, or rather a Translation of -the twenty-third Psalm, is said to have been written, and was soon -after published in the <i>Spectator</i>.</p> - -<p> I.</p> - -<p> The Lord my Pasture shall prepare,<br> - And feed me with a Shepherd's Care:<br> - His Presence shall my Wants supply,<br> - And guard me with a watchful Eye;<br> - My Noon-day Walks he shall attend,<br> - And all my Midnight Hours defend.</p> - -<p> II.</p> - -<p> When in the sultry Glebe I faint,<br> - Or on the thirsty Mountain pant;<br> - To fertile Vales and dewy Meads,<br> - My weary wand'ring Steps he leads;<br> - Where peaceful Rivers, soft and slow,<br> - Amid the verdant Landskip flow.</p> - -<p> III.</p> - -<span class="newpage"><a name="page64" id="page64">[64]</a></span> - -<p> Tho' in the Paths of Death I tread,<br> - With gloomy Horrors overspread,<br> - My stedfast Heart shall fear no ill,<br> - For thou, O Lord, art with me still;<br> - Thy friendly Crook shall give me Aid,<br> - And guide me thro' the dreadful Shade.</p> - -<p> IV.</p> - -<p> Tho' in a bare and rugged Way,<br> - Thro' devious lonely Wilds I stray,<br> - Thy Bounty shall my Pains beguile:<br> - The barren Wilderness shall smile,<br> - With sudden Greens & herbage crown'd,<br> - And Streams shall murmur all around.</p> - -<p>Here ends the History of Little <i>Two Shoes</i>. Those who -would know how she behaved after she came to be Mrs. <i>Margery -Two-Shoes</i> must read the Second Part of this Work, in which an -Account of the Remainder of her Life, her Marriage, and Death are -set forth at large, according to Act of Parliament.</p> - -<br> -<br> -<br> -<br> -<hr width="80%"> -<center><span class="newpage"><a name="page65" id= -"page65">[65]</a></span> - -<h3>The Renowned</h3> - -<h1>H I S T O R Y</h1> - -<h3>O F</h3> - -<h2>Mrs. M<small>ARGERY</small> - T<small>WO</small>-S<small>HOES</small>.</h2> - -<hr width="80%"> -<b>P A R T II.</b><br> -<hr width="80%"> -<p>I<small> N T R O - D U C T - I O N.</small></p> -</center> - -<p>In the first Part of this Work, the young Student has read, and -I hope with Pleasure and Improvement, the History of this Lady, -while she was known and distinguished by the Name of <i>Little -Two-Shoes</i>; we are now come to a Period of her Life when that -Name was discarded, and a more eminent one bestowed upon her, <span -class="newpage"><a name="page66" id="page66">[66]</a></span>I mean -that of Mrs. <i>Margery Two-Shoes</i>: For as she was now President -of the A, B, C College, it became necessary to exalt her in Title -as well as in Place.</p> - -<p>No sooner was she settled in this Office, but she laid every -possible Scheme to promote the Welfare and Happiness of all her -Neighbours, and especially of the Little Ones, in whom she took -great Delight, and all those whose Parents could not afford to pay -for their Education, she taught for nothing, but the Pleasure she -had in their Company, for you are to observe, that they were very -good, or were soon made so by her good Management.</p> - -<br> -<br> -<br> -<br> -<span class="newpage"><a name="page67" id="page67">[67]</a></span> - -<center> -<h3>C H A P. I.</h3> - -<p><i>Of her School, her Ushers, or Assistants, and her Manner of -Teaching.</i></p> -</center> - -<p>We have already informed the Reader, that the School where she -taught, was that which was before kept by Mrs. <i>Williams</i>, -whose Character you may find in my <i>New Year's Gift</i>. The Room -was large, and as she knew, that Nature intended Children should be -always in Action, she placed her different Letters, or Alphabets, -all round the School, so that every one was obliged to get up to -fetch a Letter, or to spell a Word, when it came to their Turn; -which not only kept them in Health, but fixed the Letters and -Points firmly in their Minds.</p> - -<span class="newpage"><a name="page68" id="page68">[68]</a></span> - -<p>She had the following Assistants or Ushers to help her, and I -will tell you how she came by them. Mrs. <i>Margery</i>, you must -know, was very humane and compassionate; and her Tenderness -extended not only to all Mankind, but even to all Animals that were -not noxious; as your's ought to do, if you would be happy here, and -go to Heaven hereafter. These are G<small>OD</small> Almighty's -Creatures as well as we. He made both them and us; and for wise -Purposes, best known to himself, placed them in this World to live -among us; so that they are our fellow Tenants of the Globe. How -then can People dare to torture and wantonly destroy -G<small>OD</small> Almighty's Creatures? They as well as you are -capable of feeling Pain, and of receiving Pleasure, and how can -you, who want to be made <span class="newpage"><a name="page69" id= -"page69">[69]</a></span>happy yourself, delight in making your -fellow Creatures miserable? Do you think the poor Birds, whose Nest -and young ones that wicked Boy <i>Dick Wilson</i> ran away with -Yesterday, do not feel as much Pain, as your Father and Mother -would have felt, had any one pulled down their House and ran away -with you? To be sure they do. Mrs. <i>Two-Shoes</i> used to speak -of those Things, and of naughty Boys throwing at Cocks, torturing -Flies, and whipping Horses and Dogs, with Tears in her Eyes, and -would never suffer any one to come to her School who did so.</p> - -<p>One Day, as she was going through the next Village, she met with -some wicked Boys who had got a young Raven, which they were going -to throw at, she wanted to get the poor Creature out of their cruel -Hands,<span class="newpage"><a name="page70" id= -"page70">[70]</a></span> and therefore gave them a Penny for him, -and brought him home. She called his Name <i>Ralph</i>, and a fine -Bird he is. Do look at him and remember what <i>Solomon</i> says, -<i>The Eye that despiseth his Father, and regardeth not the -Distress of his Mother, the Ravens of the Valley shall peck it out, -and the young Eagles eat it.</i> Now this Bird she taught to speak, -to spell and to read; and as he was particularly fond of <span -class="newpage"><a name="page71" id="page71">[71]</a></span>playing -with the large Letters, the Children used to call this -<i>Ralph</i>'s Alphabet.</p> - -<center>A B C D -E F G H -I J K L M<br> -N O P Q -R S T U -V W X Y Z.<br> -<br> -</center> - -<p>He always sat at her Elbow, as you see in the first Picture, and -when any of the Children were wrong, she used to call out, <i>Put -them right Ralph</i>.</p> - -<center><img src="images/image19.png" width="357" height="276" alt= -"Ralph the Raven" border="0"></center> - -<p>Some Days after she had met with the Raven, as she was walking -in the Fields, she saw some naughty Boys, who had taken a Pidgeon, -and tied a String to its Leg, in order to let it fly, and draw it -back again when they pleased; and by this Means they tortured the -poor Animal with the Hopes of Liberty and repeated Disappointment. -This Pidgeon she also bought, and taught him how to spell and read, -though not to talk, and he performed all those <span class= -"newpage"><a name="page72" id="page72">[72]</a></span>extraordinary -Things which are recorded of the famous Bird, that was some Time -since advertised in the <i>Haymarket</i>, and visited by most of -the great People in the Kingdom. This Pidgeon was a very pretty -Fellow, and she called him <i>Tom</i>. See here he is.</p> - -<center><img src="images/image20.png" width="360" height="276" alt= -"Tom the Pidgeon" border="0"></center> - -<p>And as the Raven <i>Ralph</i> was fond of the large Letters, -<i>Tom</i> the Pidgeon took Care of the small ones, of which he -composed this Alphabet.</p> - -<span class="newpage"><a name="page73" id="page73">[73]</a></span> - -<center>a b c d -e f g h -i j k l m<br> -n o p q -r s t u -v w x y z.<br> -<br> -</center> - -<p>The Neighbours knowing that Mrs. <i>Two Shoes</i> was very good, -as to be sure nobody was better, made her a Present of a little -Sky-lark, and a fine Bird he is.</p> - -<center><img src="images/image21.png" width="357" height="284" alt= -"Sky-lark" border="0"></center> - -<span class="newpage"><a name="page74" id="page74">[74]</a></span> - -<p>Now as many People, even at that Time had learned to lie in Bed -long in the Morning, she thought the Lark might be of Use to her -and her Pupils, and tell them when to get up.</p> - -<p><i>For be that is fond of his Bed, and lays 'till Noon, lives -but half his Days, the rest being lost in Sleep, which is a Kind of -Death</i>.</p> - -<p>Some Time after this a poor Lamb had lost its Dam, and the -Farmer being about to kill it, she bought it of him, and brought it -home with her to play with the Children, and teach them when to go -to Bed; for it was a Rule with the wise Men of that Age (and a very -good one, let me tell you) to</p> - -<span class="newpage"><a name="page75" id="page75">[75]</a></span> - -<p><i> Rise with the Lark, and lie down with the -Lamb.</i></p> - -<p>This Lamb she called <i>Will</i>, and a pretty Fellow he is; do, -look at him.</p> - -<center><img src="images/image22.png" width="368" height="297" alt= -"Will the Lamb" border="0"></center> - -<p>No sooner was <i>Tippy</i> the Lark and <i>Will</i> the Ba-lamb -brought into the School, but that sensible Rogue <i>Ralph</i>, the -Raven, composed the <span class="newpage"><a name="page76" id= -"page76">[76]</a></span>following Verse, which every little good -Boy and Girl should get by Heart.</p> - -<p><i> Early to Bed, and early to rise;<br> - Is the Way to be healthy, and wealthy, and -wise</i>.</p> - -<p>A sly Rogue; but it is true enough; for those who do not go to -Bed early cannot rise early; and those who do not rise early cannot -do much Business. Pray, let this be told at the Court, and to -People who have Routs and Rackets.</p> - -<p>Soon after this, a Present was made to Mrs. <i>Margery</i> of -little Dog <i>Jumper</i>, and a pretty Dog he is. Pray, look at -him.</p> - -<span class="newpage"><a name="page77" id="page77">[77]</a></span> - -<center><img src="images/image23.png" width="339" height="287" alt= -"Jumper the Dog" border="0"></center> - -<p><i>Jumper, Jumper, Jumper!</i> He is always in a good Humour, -and playing and jumping about, and therefore he was called -<i>Jumper</i>. The Place assigned for <i>Jumper</i> was that of -keeping the Door, so that he may be called the Porter of the -College, for he would let nobody go out, or any one come in, -without the Leave of his Mistress. See how he sits, a saucy -Rogue.</p> - -<span class="newpage"><a name="page78" id="page78">[78]</a></span> - -<p><i>Billy</i> the Ba-lamb was a chearful Fellow, and all the -Children were fond of him, wherefore Mrs. <i>Two-Shoes</i> made it -a Rule, that those who behaved best should have <i>Will</i> home -with them at Night to carry their Satchel or Basket at his Back, -and bring it in the Morning. See what a fine Fellow he is, and how -he trudges along.</p> - -<br> -<br> -<br> -<br> -<center> -<h3>C H A P. II.</h3> - -<p><i>A Scene of Distress in the School</i>.</p> -</center> - -<img src="images/image24.png" width="277" height="218" alt= -"the Pidgeon rode on the his head" border="0" align="left"> - -<p>It happened one Day, when Mrs. <i>Two-Shoes</i> was diverting -the Children after Dinner, as she usually did with some innocent -Games, or entertaining and instructive Stories, that a Man arrived -with the melancholy News of <i>Sally Jones's</i> Father being <span -class="newpage"><a name="page79" id="page79">[79]</a></span>thrown -from his Horse, and thought past all Recovery; nay, the Messenger -said, that he was seemingly dying, when he came away. Poor -<i>Sally</i> was greatly distressed, as indeed were all the School, -for she dearly loved her Father, and Mrs. <i>Two-Shoes</i>, and all -the Children dearly loved her. It is generally said, that we never -know the real Value of our Parents or Friends till we have lost -them; but poor <i>Sally</i> felt this by Affection, and her -Mistress knew it by Experience. All the School were in Tears, and -the Messenger was obliged to return; but before he went, Mrs. -<i>Two-Shoes</i>, unknown to the Children, ordered <i>Tom</i> -Pidgeon to go home with the Man, and bring a Letter to inform her -how Mr. <i>Jones</i> did. They set out together, <span class= -"newpage"><a name="page80" id="page80">[80]</a></span>and the -Pidgeon rode on the Man's Head, (as you see here) for the Man was -able to carry the Pidgeon, though the Pidgeon was not able to carry -the Man, if he had, they would have been there much sooner, for -<i>Tom</i> Pidgeon was <i>very good</i>, and never staid on an -Errand.</p> - -<p>Soon after the Man was gone the <span class="newpage"><a name= -"page81" id="page81">[81]</a></span>Pidgeon was lost, and the -Concern the Children were under for Mr. <i>Jones</i> and little -<i>Sally</i> was in some Measure diverted, and Part of their -Attention turned after <i>Tom</i>, who was a great Favourite, and -consequently much bewailed. Mrs. <i>Margery</i>, who knew the great -Use and Necessity of teaching Children to submit chearfully to the -Will of Providence, bid them wipe away their Tears, and then -kissing <i>Sally</i>, you must be a good Girl, says she, and depend -upon G<small>OD</small> Almighty for his Blessing and Protection; -for <i>he is a Father to the Fatherless, and defendeth all those -who put their Trust in him</i>. She then told them a Story, which I -shall relate in as few Words as possible.</p> - -<span class="newpage"><a name="page82" id="page82">[82]</a></span> - -<center> -<p><i>The History of Mr.</i> Lovewell, <i>Father to Lady</i> -Lucy.</p> -</center> - -<p>Mr. <i>Lovewell</i> was born at <i>Bath</i>, and apprenticed to -a laborious Trade in <i>London</i>, which being too hard for him, -he parted with his Master by Consent, and hired himself as a common -Servant to a Merchant in the City. Here he spent his leisure Hours -not as Servants too frequently do, in Drinking and Schemes of -Pleasure, but in improving his Mind; and among other Acquirements, -he made himself a complete Master of Accompts. His Sobriety, -Honesty, and the Regard he paid to his Master's Interest, greatly -recommended him in the whole Family, and he had several Offices of -Trust committed to his Charge, in which he <span class="newpage"><a -name="page83" id="page83">[83]</a></span>acquitted himself so well, -that the Merchant removed him from the Stable into the -Counting-house.</p> - -<p>Here he soon made himself Master of the Business, and became so -useful to the Merchant, that in regard to his faithful Services, -and the Affection he had for him, he married him to his own Niece, -a prudent agreeable young Lady; and gave him a Share in the -Business. See what Honesty and Industry will do for us. Half the -great Men in <i>London</i>, I am told, have made themselves by this -Means, and who would but be honest and industrious, when it is so -much our Interest and our Duty.</p> - -<p>After some Years the Merchant died, and left Mr. <i>Lovewell</i> -possessed of many fine Ships at Sea, and much Money, and he was -happy in a Wife, who had brought him a Son and two <span class= -"newpage"><a name="page84" id="page84">[84]</a></span>Daughters, -all dutiful and obedient. The Treasures and good Things, however, -of this Life are so uncertain, that a Man can never be happy, -unless he lays the Foundation for it in his own Mind. So true is -that Copy in our Writing Books, which tells us, that <i>a contented -Mind is a continual Feast</i>.</p> - -<p>After some Years successful Trade, he thought his Circumstances -sufficient to insure his own Ships, or, in other Words, to send his -Ships and Goods to Sea without being insured by others, as is -customary among Merchants; when, unfortunately for him, four of -them richly laden were lost at Sea. This he supported with becoming -Resolution; but the next Mail brought him Advice, that nine others -were taken by the <i>French</i>, with whom we were then at War; and -this, <span class="newpage"><a name="page85" id= -"page85">[85]</a></span>together with the Failure of three foreign -Merchants whom he had trusted, compleated his Ruin. He was then -obliged to call his Creditors together, who took his Effects, and -being angry with him for the imprudent Step of not insuring his -Ships, left him destitute of all Subsistence. Nor did the -Flatterers of his Fortune, those who had lived by his Bounty when -in his Prosperity, pay the least Regard either to him or his -Family. So true is another Copy, that you will find in your Writing -Book, which says, <i>Misfortune tries our Friends</i>. All these -Slights of his pretended Friends, and the ill Usage of his -Creditors, both he and his Family bore with Christian Fortitude; -but other Calamities fell upon him, which he felt more -sensibly.</p> - -<p>In his Distress, one of his <span class="newpage"><a name= -"page86" id="page86">[86]</a></span>Relations, who lived at -<i>Florence</i>, offered to take his Son; and another, who lived at -<i>Barbadoes</i>, sent for one of his Daughters. The Ship which his -Son sailed in was cast away, and all the Crew supposed to be lost; -and the Ship, in which his Daughter went a Passenger, was taken by -Pyrates, and one Post brought the miserable Father an Account of -the Loss of his two Children. This was the severest Stroke of all: -It made him compleatly wretched, and he knew it must have a -dreadful Effect on his Wife and Daughter; he therefore endeavoured -to conceal it from them. But the perpetual Anxiety he was in, -together with the Loss of his Appetite and Want of Rest, soon -alarmed his Wife. She found something was labouring in his Breast, -which was concealed from her; and one <span class="newpage"><a -name="page87" id="page87">[87]</a></span>Night being disturbed in a -Dream, with what was ever in his Thoughts, and calling out upon his -dear Children; she awoke him, and insisted upon knowing the Cause -of his Inquietude. <i>Nothing, my Dear, nothing,</i> says he, -<i>The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the Name -of the Lord.</i> This was sufficient to alarm the poor Woman; she -lay till his Spirits were composed, and as she thought asleep, then -stealing out of Bed, got the Keys and opened his Bureau, where she -found the fatal Account. In the Height of her Distractions, she -flew to her Daughter's Room, and waking her with her Shrieks, put -the Letters into her Hands. The young Lady, unable to support this -Load of Misery, fell into a Fit, from which it was thought she -never could have been recovered. <span class="newpage"><a name= -"page88" id="page88">[88]</a></span>However, at last she revived; -but the Shock was so great, that it entirely deprived her of her -Speech.</p> - -<p>Thus loaded with Misery, and unable to bear the Slights and -Disdain of those who had formerly professed themselves Friends, -this unhappy Family retired into a Country, where they were -unknown, in order to hide themselves from the World; when, to -support their Independency, the Father laboured as well as he could -at Husbandry, and the Mother and Daughter sometimes got spinning -and knitting Work, to help to furnish the Means of Subsistence; -which however was so precarious and uncertain, that they often, for -many Weeks together, lived on nothing but Cabbage and Bread boiled -in Water. But G<small>OD</small> never forsaketh the Righteous, nor -suffereth those to <span class="newpage"><a name="page89" id= -"page89">[89]</a></span>perish who put their Trust in him. At this -Time a Lady, who was just come to England, sent to take a pleasant -Seat ready furnished in that Neighbourhood, and the Person who was -employed for the Purpose, was ordered to deliver a Bank Note of an -hundred Pounds to Mr. <i>Lovewell</i>, another hundred to his Wife, -and fifty to the Daughter, desiring them to take Possession of the -House, and get it well aired against she came down, which would be -in two or three Days at most. This, to People who were almost -starving, was a sweet and seasonable Relief, and they were all -sollicitous to know their Benefactress, but of that the Messenger -himself was too ignorant to inform them. However, she came down -sooner than was expected, and with Tears embraced them again and -<span class="newpage"><a name="page90" id= -"page90">[90]</a></span>again: After which she told the Father and -Mother she had heard from their Daughter, who was her Acquaintance, -and that she was well and on her Return to England. This was the -agreeable Subject of their Conversation till after Dinner, when -drinking their Healths, she again with Tears saluted them, and -falling upon her Knees asked their Blessings.</p> - -<center><img src="images/image25.png" width="356" height="273" alt= -"falling upon her Knees and asked their blessings" border= -"0"></center> - -<p>Tis impossible to express the mutual <span class="newpage"><a -name="page91" id="page91">[91]</a></span>Joy which this occasioned. -Their Conversation was made up of the most endearing Expressions, -intermingled with Tears and Caresses. Their Torrent of Joy, -however, was for a Moment interrupted, by a Chariot which stopped -at the Gate, and which brought as they thought a very unseasonable -Visitor, and therefore she sent to be excused from seeing -Company.</p> - -<img src="images/image26.png" width="363" height="278" alt= -"Chariot" border="0" align="left"> <span class="newpage"><a name= -"page92" id="page92">[92]</a></span> - -<p>But this had no Effect, for a Gentleman richly dressed jumped -out of the Chariot, and pursuing the Servant into the Parlour -saluted them round, who were all astonished at his Behaviour. But -when the Tears trickled from his Cheeks, the Daughter, who had been -some Years dumb, immediately cried out, <i>my Brother! my Brother! -my Brother!</i> and from that Instant recovered her Speech. The -mutual Joy which this occasioned, is better felt than expressed. -Those who have proper Sentiments of Humanity, Gratitude, and filial -Piety will rejoice at the Event, and those who have a proper Idea -of the Goodness of G<small>OD</small>, and his gracious Providence, -will from this, as well as other Instances of his Goodness and -Mercy, glorify his holy Name, and magnify his Wisdom and Power, who -is a <span class="newpage"><a name="page93" id= -"page93">[93]</a></span>Shield to the Righteous, and defendeth all -those who put their Trust in him.</p> - -<p>As you, my dear Children, may be sollicitous to know how this -happy Event was brought about, I must inform you, that Mr. -<i>Lovewell</i> 's Son, when the Ship foundered, had with some -others got into the long Boat, and was taken up by a Ship at Sea, -and carried to the East Indies, where in a little Time he made a -large Fortune; and the Pirates who took his Daughter, attempted to -rob her of her Chastity; but finding her Inflexible, and determined -to die rather than to submit, some of them behaved to her in a very -cruel Manner; but others, who had more Honour and Generosity, -became her Defenders; upon which a Quarrel arose between them, and -the Captain, who was the worst <span class="newpage"><a name= -"page94" id="page94">[94]</a></span>of the Gang, being killed, the -rest of the Crew carried the Ship into a Port of the <i>Manilla</i> -Islands, belonging to the <i>Spaniards</i>; where, when her Story -was known, she was treated with great Respect, and courted by a -young Gentleman, who was taken ill of a Fever, and died before the -Marriage was agreed on, but left her his whole Fortune.</p> - -<p>You see, my dear <i>Sally</i>, how wonderfully these People were -preserved, and made happy after such extreme Distress; we are -therefore never to despair, even under the greatest Misfortunes, -for G<small>OD</small> Almighty is All-powerful and can deliver us -at any Time. Remember <i>Job</i>, but I think you have not read so -far, take the Bible, <i>Billy Jones</i>, and read the History of -that good and patient Man. At this Instant something was heard to -<span class="newpage"><a name="page95" id= -"page95">[95]</a></span>flap at the Window, <i>Wow, wow, wow</i>, -says Jumper, and attempted to leap up and open the Door, at which -the Children were surprized; but Mrs. <i>Margery</i> knowing what -it was, opened the Casement, as <i>Noah</i> did the Window of the -Ark, and drew in <i>Tom</i> Pidgeon with a Letter, and see here he -is.</p> - -<center><img src="images/image27.png" width="353" height="276" alt= -"Tom Pidgeon with a Letter" border="0"></center> - -<p>As soon as he was placed on the Table, he walked up to little -<i>Sally</i>, <span class="newpage"><a name="page96" id= -"page96">[96]</a></span>and dropping the Letter, cried, <i>Co, Co, -Coo</i>, as much as to say, <i>there read it</i>. Now this poor -Pidgeon had travelled fifty Miles in about an Hour, to bring -<i>Sally</i> this Letter, and who would destroy such pretty -Creatures.----But let us read the Letter.</p> - -<p><i> My dear</i> Sally,</p> - -G<small>OD</small> Almighty has been very merciful, and restored -your Pappa to us again, who is now so well as to be able to sit up. -I hear you are a good Girl, my Dear, and I hope you will never -forget to praise the Lord for this his great Goodness and Mercy to -us--What a sad Thing it would have been if your Father had died, -and left both you and me, and little <i>Tommy</i> in Distress, and -without a Friend: Your Father sends his Blessing <span class= -"newpage"><a name="page97" id="page97">[97]</a></span>with mine--Be -good, my dear Child, and G<small>OD</small> Almighty will also -bless you, whose Blessing is above all Things.<br> -<br> -<p><i> I am, my Dear Sally</i>,</p> - -<p><i> Your ever -affectionate Mother,</i></p> - -<p> - M <small>A R T H -A</small> J <small>O N E S</small>.</p> - -<br> -<br> -<br> -<br> -<center> -<h3>C H A P. III.</h3> - -<p><i>Of the amazing Sagacity and Instincts of a little -Dog</i>.</p> -</center> - -<p>Soon after this, a dreadful Accident happened in the School. It -was on a <i>Thursday</i> Morning, I very well remember, when the -Children having learned their Lessons soon, she had given them -Leave to <span class="newpage"><a name="page98" id= -"page98">[98]</a></span>play, and they were all running about the -School, and diverting themselves with the Birds and the Lamb; at -this Time the Dog, all of a sudden, laid hold of his Mistress's -Apron, and endeavoured to pull her out of the School. She was at -first surprized, however, she followed him to see what he intended. -No sooner had he led her into the Garden, but he ran back, and -pulled out one of the Children in the same manner; upon which she -ordered them all to leave the School immediately, and they had not -been out five Minutes, before the Top of the House fell in. What a -miraculous Deliverance was here! How gracious! How good was -G<small>OD</small> Almighty, to save all these Children from -Destruction, and to make Use of such an Instrument, as a little -sagacious Animal to accomplish <span class="newpage"><a name= -"page99" id="page99">[99]</a></span>his Divine Will. I should have -observed, that as soon as they were all in the Garden, the Dog came -leaping round them to express his Joy, and when the House was -fallen, laid himself down quietly by his Mistress.</p> - -<p>Some of the Neighbours, who saw the School fall, and who were in -great Pain for <i>Margery</i> and the little ones, soon spread the -News through the Village, and all the Parents, terrified for their -Children, came crowding in Abundance; they had, however, the -Satisfaction to find them all safe, and upon their Knees, with -their Mistress, giving G<small>OD</small> thanks for their happy -Deliverance.</p> - -<center> -<p>A <small>D V I C E</small> <i>from the</i> M <small>A -N</small> <i>in the</i> M <small>O O N</small>.</p> -</center> - -<p><i>Jumper, Jumper, Jumper</i>, what a pretty Dog he is, and how -sensible? <span class="newpage"><a name="page100" id= -"page100">[100]</a></span>Had Mankind half the Sagacity of -<i>Jumper</i>, they would guard against Accidents of this Sort, by -having a public Survey, occasionally made of all the Houses in -every Parish (especially of those, which are old and decayed) and -not suffer them to remain in a crazy State, 'till they fall down on -the Heads of the poor Inhabitants, and crush them to Death. Why, it -was but Yesterday, that a whole House fell down in -<i>Grace-church-street</i>, and another in <i>Queen's-street</i>, -and an hundred more are to tumble, before this Time twelve Months; -so Friends, take Care of yourselves, and tell the Legislature, they -ought to take Care for you. How can you be so careless? Most of -your Evils arise from Carelesness and Extravagance, and yet you -excuse yourselves, and lay the Fault <span class="newpage"><a name= -"page101" id="page101">[101]</a></span>upon Fortune. Fortune is a -Fool, and you are a Blockhead, if you put it in her Power to play -Tricks with you.</p> - -<p> -<i> Yours</i>,</p> - -<p><i> - The</i> M <small>A -N</small> <i>in the</i> M <small>O O N</small>.</p> - -<!--START HERE 128.PNG FOLIO 101--> -<p>You are not to wonder, my dear Reader, that this little Dog -should have more Sense than you, or your Father, or your -Grandfather.</p> - -<img src="images/image28.png" width="275" height="227" alt= -"Nightingale" border="0" align="right"> - -<p>Though G<small>OD</small> Almighty has made Man the Lord of the -Creation, and endowed him with Reason, yet in many Respects, he has -been altogether as bountiful to other Creatures of his forming. -Some of the Senses of other Animals are more acute than ours, as we -find by daily Experience. You know this little Bird, <span class= -"newpage"><a name="page102" id="page102">[102]</a></span><i>sweet -Jug, Jug, Jug</i>, 'tis a Nightingale. This little Creature, after -she has entertained us with her Songs all the Spring, and bred up -her little ones, flies into a foreign Country, and finds her Way -over the Great Sea, without any of the Instruments and Helps which -Men are obliged to make Use of for that Purpose. Was you as wise as -the Nightingale, <span class="newpage"><a name="page103" id= -"page103">[103]</a></span>you might make all the Sailors happy, and -have twenty thousand Pounds for teaching them the Longitude.</p> - -<p>You would not think <i>Ralph</i> the Raven half so wise and so -good as he is, though you see him here reading his book. Yet when -the Prophet <i>Elijah</i>, was obliged to fly from <i>Ahab</i> King -of <i>Israel</i>, and hide himself in a Cave, the Ravens, at the -Command of G<small>OD</small> Almighty, fed him every Day, and -preserved his Life.</p> - -<p><i>And the Word of the Lord came unto</i> Elijah<i>, saying, -Hide thyself by the Brook</i> Cherith<i>, that is before</i> -Jordan<i>, and I have commanded the Ravens to feed thee there. And -the Ravens brought him Bread and Flesh in the Morning, and Bread -and Flesh in the Evening, and he drank of the Brook,</i> Kings, -B.I.C. 17.</p> - -<p>And the pretty Pidgeon when the <span class="newpage"><a name= -"page104" id="page104">[104]</a></span>World was drowned, and he -was confined with <i>Noah</i> in the Ark, was sent forth by him to -see whether the Waters were abated, <i>And he sent forth a Dove -from him, to see if the Waters were abated from off the Face of the -Ground. And the Dove came in to him in the Evening, and lo, in her -Mouth was an Olive Leaf plucked off: So</i> Noah <i>knew that the -Waters were abated from off the Earth.</i> Gen. viii. 8. 11.</p> - -<p>As these, and other Animals, are so sensible and kind to us, we -ought to be tender and good to them, and not beat them about, and -kill them, and take away their young ones, as many wicked Boys do. -Does not the Horse and the Ass carry you and your burthens; don't -the Ox plough your Ground, the Cow give you Milk, the Sheep cloath -your Back, <span class="newpage"><a name="page105" id= -"page105">[105]</a></span>the Dog watch your House, the Goose find -you in Quills to write with, the Hen bring Eggs for your Custards -and Puddings, and the Cock call you up in the Morning, when you are -lazy, and like to hurt yourselves by laying too long in Bed? If so, -how can you be so cruel to them, and abuse G<small>OD</small> -Almighty's good Creatures? Go, naughty Boy, go; be sorry for what -you have done, and do so no more, that G<small>OD</small> Almighty -may forgive you. <i>Amen</i>, say I, again and again. -G<small>OD</small> will bless you, but not unless you are merciful -and good.</p> - -<p>The downfal of the School, was a great Misfortune to Mrs. -<i>Margery</i>; for she not only lost all her Books, but was -destitute of a Place to teach in; but Sir William <i>Dove</i>, -being informed of this, ordered the House to be built at his own -Expence, and <span class="newpage"><a name="page106" id= -"page106">[106]</a></span>'till that could be done, Farmer -<i>Grove</i> was so kind, as to let her have his large Hall to -teach in.</p> - -The House built by Sir <i>William</i>, had a Statue erected over -the Door of a Boy sliding on the Ice, and under it were these -Lines, written by Mrs. <i>Two-Shoes</i>, and engraved at her -Expence.<br> -<br> -<center><img src="images/image29.png" width="396" height="300" alt= -"Boy sliding on the Ice" border="0"></center> - -<span class="newpage"><a name="page107" id= -"page107">[107]</a></span> - -<p> On S <small>I N</small>. A S <small>I M -I L E</small>.</p> - -<p> As a poor Urchin on the Ice,<br> - When he has tumbl'd once or twice,<br> - With cautious Step, and trembling goes,<br> - The drop-stile Pendant on his Nose,<br> - And trudges on to seek the Shore,<br> - Resolv'd to trust the Ice no more:<br> - But meeting with a daring Mate,<br> - Who often us'd to slide and scate,<br> - Again is into Danger led,<br> - And falls again, and breaks his head.<br> -<br> - So Youth when first they're drawn to sin,<br> - And see the Danger they are in,<br> - Would gladly quit the thorney Way,<br> - And think it is unsafe to stay;<br> - But meeting with their wicked Train,<br> - Return with them to sin again:<br> - With them the Paths of Vice explore;<br> - With them are ruin'd ever more.</p> - -<br> -<br> -<br> -<br> -<span class="newpage"><a name="page108" id= -"page108">[108]</a></span> - -<center> -<h3>C H A P. IV.</h3> - -<p><i>What happened at Farmer Grove's; and how<br> -she gratified him for the Use of his Room</i>.</p> -</center> - -<p>While at Mr. <i>Grove's</i>, which was in the Heart of the -Village, she not only taught the Children in the Day Time, but the -Farmer's Servants, and all the Neighbours, to read and write in the -Evening; and it was a constant Practice before they went away, to -make them all go to Prayers, and sing Psalms. By this Means, the -People grew extremely regular, his Servants were always at Home, -instead of being at the Ale-house, and he had more Work done than -ever. This <span class="newpage"><a name="page109" id= -"page109">[109]</a></span>gave not only Mr. <i>Grove</i>, but all -the Neighbours, an high Opinion of her good Sense and prudent -Behaviour: And she was so much esteemed, that most of the -Differences in the Parish were left to her Decision; and if a Man -and Wife quarrelled (which sometimes happened in that Part of the -Kingdom) both Parties certainly came to her for Advice. Every Body -knows, that <i>Martha Wilson</i> was a passionate scolding Jade, -and that <i>John</i> her husband, was a surly ill-tempered Fellow. -These were one Day brought by the Neighbours for <i>Margery</i> to -talk to them, when they fairly quarrelled before her, and were -going to Blows; but she stepping between them, thus addressed the -Husband; <i>John</i>, says she, you are a Man, and ought to have -more Sense than to fly <span class="newpage"><a name="page110" id= -"page110">[110]</a></span>in a Passion, at every Word that is said -amiss by your Wife; and <i>Martha</i>, says she, you ought to know -your Duty better, than to say any Thing to aggravate your Husband's -Resentment. These frequent Quarrels, arise from the Indulgence of -your violent Passions; for I know, you both love one another, -notwithstanding what has passed between you. Now, pray tell me -<i>John</i>, and tell me <i>Martha</i>, when you have had a Quarrel -the over Night, are you not both sorry for it the next Day? They -both declared that they were: Why then, says she, I'll tell you how -to prevent this for the future, if you will both promise to take my -Advice. They both promised her. You know, says she, that a small -Spark will set Fire to Tinder, and that Tinder <span class= -"newpage"><a name="page111" id="page111">[111]</a></span>properly -placed will fire a House; an angry Word is with you as that Spark, -for you are both as touchy as Tinder, and very often make your own -House too hot to hold you. To prevent this, therefore, and to live -happily for the future, you must solemnly agree, that if one speaks -an angry Word, the other will not answer, 'till he or she has -distinctly called over all the Letters in the Alphabet, and the -other not reply, 'till he has told twenty; by this Means your -Passions will be stifled, and Reason will have Time to take the -Rule.</p> - -<p>This is the best Recipe that was ever given for a married Couple -to live in Peace: Though <i>John</i> and his Wife frequently -attempted to quarrel afterwards, they never could get their -Passions to any considerable Height, <span class="newpage"><a name= -"page112" id="page112">[112]</a></span>for there was something so -droll in thus carrying on the Dispute, that before they got to the -End of the Argument, they saw the Absurdity of it, laughed, kissed, -and were Friends.</p> - -<p>Just as Mrs. <i>Margery</i> had settled this Difference between -<i>John</i> and his Wife, the Children (who had been sent out to -play, while that Business was transacting) returned some in Tears, -and others very disconsolate, for the Loss of a little Dormouse -they were very fond of, and which was just dead. Mrs. -<i>Margery</i>, who had the Art of moralizing and drawing -Instructions from every Accident, took this Opportunity of reading -them a Lecture on the Uncertainty of Life, and the Necessity of -being always prepared for Death. You should <span class= -"newpage"><a name="page113" id="page113">[113]</a></span>get up in -the Morning, says she, and to conduct yourselves, as if that Day -was to be your last, and lie down at Night, as if you never -expected to see this World any more. This may be done, says she, -without abating of your Chearfulness, for you are not to consider -Death as an Evil, but as a Convenience, as an useful Pilot, who is -to convey you to a Place of greater Happiness: Therefore, play my -dear Children, and be merry; but be innocent and good. The good Man -sets Death at Defiance, for his Darts are only dreadful to the -Wicked.</p> - -<p>After this, she permitted the Children to bury the little -Dormouse, and desired one of them to write his Epitaph, and here it -is.</p> - -<span class="newpage"><a name="page114" id= -"page114">[114]</a></span> - -<center> -<p><i>Epitaph on a</i> -D O R M O U S E, <i>really<br> -written by a little</i> BOY.</p> -</center> - -<p> - I.</p> - -<p> In Paper Case,<br> - Hard by this Place,<br> - Dead a poor Dormouse lies;<br> - And soon or late,<br> - Summon'd by Fate,<br> - Each Prince, each Monarch dies.</p> - -<p> - II.</p> - -<p> Ye Sons of Verse,<br> - While I rehearse,<br> - Attend instructive Rhyme;<br> - No Sins had <i>Dor</i>,<br> - To answer for,<br> - Repent of yours in Time.</p> - -<br> -<br> -<br> -<br> -<span class="newpage"><a name="page115" id= -"page115">[115]</a></span> - -<center> -<h3>C H A P. V.</h3> - -<p><i>The whole History of the Considering Cap, set forth<br> -at large for the Benefit of all whom it may concern</i>.</p> -</center> - -<img src="images/image30.png" width="292" height="230" alt= -"Considering Cap" border="0" align="left"> - -<p>The great Reputation Mrs. <i>Margery</i> acquired by composing -Differences in Families, and especially, between Man and Wife, -induced her to cultivate that Part of her System of Morality and -Economy, in order to render it more extensively useful. For this -Purpose, she contrived what she called a Charm for the Passions; -which was a considering Cap, almost as large as a Grenadier's, but -of three equal Sides; on the first of which was written, I -<small>M A Y B E -W R O N G </small> ; on the second, -I <small>T I S -F I F T Y T O -O N E B U T Y O U -A R E ;</small> <span class="newpage"><a name= -"page116" id="page116">[116]</a></span>and on the third, -I'<small> L L -C O N S I D E R -O F I T </small> . The other Parts on the -out-side, were filled with odd Characters, as unintelligible as the -Writings of the old <i>Egyptians</i>; but within Side there was a -Direction for its Use, of the utmost Consequence; for it strictly -enjoined the Possessor to put on the Cap, whenever he found his -Passions begin to grow turbulent, and not to <span class= -"newpage"><a name="page117" id="page117">[117]</a></span>deliver a -Word whilst it was on, but with great Coolness and Moderation. As -this Cap was an universal Cure for Wrong-headedness, and prevented -numberless Disputes and Quarrels, it greatly hurt the Trade of the -poor Lawyers, but was of the utmost Service to the rest of the -Community. They were bought by Husbands and Wives, who had -themselves frequent Occasion for them, and sometimes lent them to -their Children: They were also purchased in large Quantities by -Masters and Servants; by young Folks, who were intent on Matrimony, -by Judges, Jurymen, and even Physicians and Divines; nay, if we may -believe History, the Legislators of the Land did not disdain the -Use of them; and we are told, that when any important Debate arose, -<i>Cap, was the Word</i>, and <span class="newpage"><a name= -"page118" id="page118">[118]</a></span>each House looked like a -grand Synod of <i>Egyptian</i> Priests. Nor was this Cap of less -Use to Partners in Trade, for with these, as well as with Husband -and Wife, if one was out of Humour, the other threw him the Cap, -and he was obliged to put it on, and keep it till all was quiet. I -myself saw thirteen Caps worn at a Time in one Family, which could -not have subsisted an Hour without them; and I was particularly -pleased at Sir <i>Humphry Huffum's</i>, to hear a little Girl, when -her Father was out of Humour, ask her Mamma, <i>if she should reach -down the Cap</i> ? These Caps, indeed, were of such Utility, that -People of Sense never went without them; and it was common in the -Country, when a Booby made his Appearance, and talked Nonsense, to -say, <i>he had no Cap in his Pocket</i>.</p> - -<span class="newpage"><a name="page119" id= -"page119">[119]</a></span> - -<center><img src="images/image31.png" width="372" height="290" alt= -"Friar Bacon" border="0"></center> - -<center> -<p><i>Advice from</i> -F<small> R I A R</small> -B<small> A C O N</small>.</p> -</center> - -<p>What was <i>Fortunatus</i> 's Wishing Cap, when compared to -this? That Cap, is said to have conveyed People instantly from one -Place to another; but, as the Change of Place does not change the -Temper and Disposition of the Mind, little Benefit can be expected -from it; nor indeed is much <span class="newpage"><a name="page120" -id="page120">[120]</a></span>to be hoped from his famous Purse: -That Purse, it is said, was never empty, and such a Purse, may be -sometimes convenient; but as Money will not purchase Peace, it is -not necessary for a Man to encumber himself with a great deal of -it. Peace and Happiness depend so much upon the State of a Man's -own Mind, and upon the Use of the considering Cap, that it is -generally his own Fault, if he is miserable. One of these Caps will -last a Man his whole Life, and is a Discovery of much greater -Importance to the Public than the Philosopher's Stone. Remember -what was said by my Brazen Head, <i>Time is, Time was, Time is -past</i>: Now the <i>Time is</i>, therefore buy the Cap -immediately, and make a proper Use of it, and be happy before the -<i>Time is past</i>.</p> - -<p><i> Yours</i> -R<small> O G E R</small> -B<small> A C O N</small>.</p> - -<br> -<br> -<br> -<br> -<span class="newpage"><a name="page121" id= -"page121">[121]</a></span> - -<center> -<h3>C H A P. VI.</h3> - -<p><i>How Mrs.</i> MARGERY <i>was taken up for a Witch,<br> -and what happened on that Occasion.</i></p> -</center> - -<p>And so it is true? And they have taken up Mrs. <i>Margery</i> -then, and accused her of being a Witch, only because she was wiser -than some of her Neighbours! Mercy upon me! People stuff Children's -Heads with Stories of Ghosts, Faries, Witches, and such Nonsense -when they are young, and so they continue Fools all their Days. The -whole World ought to be made acquainted with her Case, and here it -is at their Service.</p> - -<center> -<p><i>The Case of Mrs.</i> MARGERY.</p> -</center> - -<p>Mrs. <i>Margery</i>, as we have frequently observed, was always -doing Good, <span class="newpage"><a name="page122" id= -"page122">[122]</a></span>and thought she could never sufficiently -gratify those who had done any Thing to serve her. These generous -Sentiments, naturally led her to consult the Interest of Mr. -<i>Grove</i>, and the rest of her Neighbours; and as most of their -Lands were Meadow, and they depended much on their Hay, which had -been for many Years greatly damaged by wet Weather, she contrived -an Instrument to direct them when to mow their Grass with Safety, -and prevent their Hay being spoiled. They all came to her for -Advice, and by that Means got in their Hay without Damage, while -most of that in the neighbouring Villages was spoiled.</p> - -<img src="images/image32.png" width="278" height="223" alt= -"a Witch!" border="0" align="right"> - -<p>This made a great Noise in the Country, and so provoked were the -People in the other Parishes, that they accused her of being a -Witch, and <span class="newpage"><a name="page123" id= -"page123">[123]</a></span>sent Gaffer <i>Goosecap</i>, a busy -Fellow in other People's Concerns, to find out Evidence against -her. This Wiseacre happened to come to her School, when she was -walking about with the Raven on one Shoulder, the Pidgeon on the -other, the Lark on her Hand, and the Lamb and the Dog by her Side; -which indeed made a droll Figure, and so surprized the that he -cried out, <span class="newpage"><a name="page124" id= -"page124">[124]</a></span>a Witch! a Witch! upon this she laughing, -answered, a Conjurer! a Conjurer! and so they parted; but it did -not end thus, for a Warrant was issued out against Mrs. -<i>Margery</i>, and she was carried to a Meeting of the Justices, -whither all the Neighbours followed her.</p> - -<p>At the Meeting, one of the Justices, who knew little of Life, -and less of the Law, behaved very idly; and though no Body was able -to prove any Thing against her, asked, who she could bring to her -Character? <i>Who</i> can you bring against my Character, Sir, says -she, there are People enough who would appear in my Defence, were -it necessary; but I never supposed that any one here could be so -weak, as to believe there was any such Thing as a Witch. If I am a -Witch, this is my <span class="newpage"><a name="page125" id= -"page125">[125]</a></span>Charm, and (laying a Barometer or Weather -Glass on the Table) it is with this, says she, that I have taught -my Neighbours to know the State of the Weather. All the Company -laughed, and Sir <i>William Dove</i>, who was on the Bench, asked -her Accusers, how they could be such Fools, as to think there was -any such Thing as a Witch. It is true, continued he, many innocent -and worthy People have been abused and even murdered on this absurd -and foolish Supposition; which is a Scandal to our Religion, to our -Laws, to our Nation, and to common Sense; but I will tell you a -Story.</p> - -<p>There was in the West of <i>England</i> a poor industrious -Woman, who laboured under the same evil Report, which this good -Woman is accused of. Every Hog that died with the <span class= -"newpage"><a name="page126" id="page126">[126]</a></span>Murrain, -every Cow that slipt her Calf, she was accountable for: If a Horse -had the Staggers, she was supposed to be in his Head; and whenever -the Wind blew a little harder than ordinary, <i>Goody Giles</i> was -playing her Tricks, and riding upon a Broomstick in the Air. These, -and a thousand other Phantasies, too ridiculous to recite, -possessed the Pates of the common People: Horse-shoes were nailed -with the Heels upwards, and many Tricks made use of, to mortify the -poor Creature; and such was their Rage against her, that they -petitioned Mr. <i>Williams</i>, the Parson of the Parish, not to -let her come to Church; and at last, even insisted upon it: But -this he over-ruled, and allowed the poor old Woman a Nook in one of -the Isles to herself, where she muttered over her Prayers in the -<span class="newpage"><a name="page127" id= -"page127">[127]</a></span>best Manner she could. The Parish, thus -disconcerted and enraged, withdrew the small Pittance they allowed -for her Support, and would have reduced her to the Necessity of -starving, had she not been still assisted by the benevolent Mr. -<i>Williams</i>.</p> - -<p>But I hasten to the Sequel of my Story, in which you will find, -that the true Source from whence Witchcraft springs is -<i>Poverty</i>, <i>Age</i>, and <i>Ignorance</i>; and that it is -impossible for a Woman to pass for a Witch, unless she is <i>very -poor</i>, <i>very old</i>, and lives in a Neighbourhood where the -People are <i>void of common Sense</i>.</p> - -<p>Some Time after, a Brother of her's died in <i>London</i>, who, -though he would not part with a Farthing while he lived, at his -Death was obliged to leave her five thousand Pounds, that he could -not carry with him.<span class="newpage"><a name="page128" id= -"page128">[128]</a></span>----This altered the Face of <i>Jane</i> -'s Affairs prodigiously: She was no longer <i>Jane</i>, alias -<i>Joan Giles</i>, the ugly old Witch, but Madam <i>Giles</i>; her -old ragged Garb was exchanged for one that was new and genteel; her -greatest Enemies made their Court to her, even the Justice himself -came to wish her Joy; and though several Hogs and Horses died, and -the Wind frequently blew afterwards, yet Madam <i>Giles</i> was -never supposed to have a Hand in it; and from hence it is plain, as -I observed before, that a Woman must be <i>very poor, very old</i>, -and live in a Neighbourhood, where the People are <i>very -stupid</i>, before she can possibly pass for a Witch.</p> - -<p>'Twas a Saying of Mr. <i>Williams</i>, who would sometimes be -jocose, and had the Art of making even Satire <span class= -"newpage"><a name="page129" id="page129">[129]</a></span>agreeable; -that if ever <i>Jane</i> deserved the Character of a Witch, it was -after this Money was left her; for that with her five thousand -Pounds, she did more Acts of Charity and friendly Offices, than all -the People of Fortune within fifty Miles of the Place.</p> - -<p>After this, Sir <i>William</i> inveighed against the absurd and -foolish Notions, which the Country People had imbibed concerning -Witches, and Witchcraft, and having proved that there was no such -Thing, but that all were the Effects of Folly and Ignorance, he -gave the Court such an Account of Mrs. <i>Margery</i>, and her -Virtue, good Sense, and prudent Behaviour, that the Gentlemen -present were enamoured with her, and returned her public Thanks for -the great Service she had done the <span class="newpage"><a name= -"page130" id="page130">[130]</a></span>Country. One Gentleman in -particular, I mean Sir <i>Charles Jones</i>, had conceived such an -high Opinion of her, that he offered her a considerable Sum to take -the Care of his Family, and the Education of his Daughter, which, -however, she refused; but this Gentleman, sending for her -afterwards when he had a dangerous Fit of Illness, she went, and -behaved so prudently in the Family, and so tenderly to him and his -Daughter, that he would not permit her to leave his House, but soon -after made her Proposals of Marriage. She was truly sensible of the -Honour he intended her, but, though poor, she would not consent to -be made a Lady, till he had effectually provided for his Daughter; -for she told him, that Power was a dangerous Thing to be trusted -with, and that a good Man <span class="newpage"><a name="page131" -id="page131">[131]</a></span>or Woman would never throw themselves -into the Road of Temptation.</p> - -<img src="images/image33.png" width="353" height="275" alt= -"the Neighbours came in Crouds to see the Wedding" border="0" -align="left"> - -<p>All Things being settled, and the Day fixed, the Neighbours came -in Crouds to see the Wedding; for they were all glad, that one who -had been such a good little Girl, and was become such a virtuous -and good Woman, was going to be made a Lady; but just as the -Clergyman had opened his Book, a Gentleman richly dressed <span -class="newpage"><a name="page132" id="page132">[132]</a></span>ran -into the Church, and cry'd, Stop! stop! This greatly alarmed the -Congregation, particularly the intended Bride and Bridegroom, whom -he first accosted, and desired to speak with them apart. After they -had been talking some little Time, the People were greatly -surprized to see Sir <i>Charles</i> stand Motionless, and his Bride -cry, and faint away in the Stranger's Arms. This seeming Grief, -however, was only a Prelude to a Flood of Joy, which immediately -succeeded; for you must know, gentle Reader, that this Gentleman, -so richly dressed and bedizened with Lace, was that identical -little Boy, whom you before saw in the Sailor's Habit; in short, it -was little <i>Tom Two Shoes</i>, Mrs. <i>Margery's</i> Brother, who -was just come from beyond Sea, where he had made a large Fortune, -<span class="newpage"><a name="page133" id= -"page133">[133]</a></span>and hearing, as soon as he landed, of his -Sister's intended Wedding, had rode Post, to see that a proper -Settlement was made on her; which he thought she was now intitled -to, as he himself was both able and willing to give her an ample -Fortune. They soon returned to the Communion-Table, and were -married in Tears, but they were Tears of Joy.</p> - -<p>There is something wonderful in this young Gentleman's -Preservation and Success in Life; which we shall acquaint the -Reader of, in the History of his Life and Adventures, which will -soon be published.</p> - -<br> -<br> -<br> -<br> -<span class="newpage"><a name="page134" id= -"page134">[134]</a></span> - -<center> -<h3>C H A P. VII. and -Last.</h3> - -<p><i>The true Use of Riches.</i></p> -</center> - -<p>The Harmony and Affection that subsisted between this happy -Couple, is inexpressible; but Time, which dissolves the closest -Union, after six Years, severed Sir <i>Charles</i> from his Lady; -for being seized with a violent Fever he died, and left her full of -Grief, tho' possessed of a large Fortune.</p> - -<p>We forgot to remark, that after her Marriage, <i>Lady Jones</i> -(for so we must now call her) ordered the Chappel to be fitted up, -and allowed the Chaplain a considerable Sum out of her own private -Purse, to visit the Sick, and say Prayers every Day to all the -People that could attend. <span class="newpage"><a name="page135" -id="page135">[135]</a></span>She also gave Mr. <i>Johnson</i> ten -Guineas a Year, to preach a Sermon, annually, on the Necessity and -Duties of the marriage State, and on the Decease of Sir -<i>Charles</i>; she gave him ten more, to preach yearly on the -Subject of Death; she had put all the Parish into Mourning for the -Loss of her Husband; and to those Men who attended this yearly -Service, she gave Harvest Gloves, to their Wives Shoes and -Stockings, and to all the Children little Books and Plumb-cakes: We -must also observe, that she herself wove a Chaplet of Flowers, and -before the Service, placed it on his Grave-stone; and a suitable -Psalm was always sung by the Congregation.</p> - -<p>About this Time, she heard that Mr. <i>Smith</i> was oppressed -by Sir <span class="newpage"><a name="page136" id= -"page136">[136]</a></span>Timothy Gripe, the Justice, and his -Friend <i>Graspall</i>, who endeavoured to deprive him of Part of -his Tythes; upon which she, in Conjunction with her Brother, -defended him, and the Cause was tried in <i>Westminster-hall</i>, -where Mr. <i>Smith</i> gained a Verdict; and it appearing that Sir -<i>Timothy</i> had behaved most scandalously, as a Justice of the -Peace, he was struck off the List, and no longer permitted to act -in that Capacity. This was a Cut to a Man of his imperious -Disposition, and this was followed by one yet more severe; for a -Relation of his, who had an undoubted Right to the <i>Mouldwell</i> -Estate, finding that it was possible to get the better at Law of a -rich Man, laid Claim to it, brought his Action, and recovered the -whole Manor of <i>Mouldwell</i>, and being <span class="newpage"><a -name="page137" id="page137">[137]</a></span>afterwards inclined to -sell it, he, in Consideration of the Aid Lady <i>Margery</i> had -lent him during his Distress, made her the first Offer, and she -purchased the Whole, and threw it into different Farms, that the -Poor might be no longer under the Dominion of two over-grown -Men.</p> - -<p>This was a great Mortification to Sir <i>Timothy</i>, as well as -to his Friend <i>Graspall</i>, who from this Time experienced -nothing but Misfortunes, and was in a few Years so dispossessed of -his Ill-gotten Wealth, that his Family were reduced to seek -Subsistance from the Parish, at which those who had felt the Weight -of his Iron Hand rejoiced; but Lady <i>Margery</i> desired, that -his Children might be treated with Care and Tenderness; <i>for -they</i>, says she, <i>are no Ways accountable for the Actions of -their Father</i>.</p> - -<span class="newpage"><a name="page138" id= -"page138">[138]</a></span> - -<p>At her first coming into Power, she took Care to gratify her old -Friends, especially Mr. and Mrs. <i>Smith</i>, whose Family she -made happy.--She paid great Regard to the Poor, made their Interest -her own, and to induce them to come regularly to Church, she -ordered a Loaf, or the Price of a Loaf, to be given to every one -who would accept of it. This brought many of them to Church, who by -degrees learned their Duty, and then came on a more noble -Principle. She also took Care to encourage Matrimony; and in order -to induce her Tenants and Neighbours to enter into that happy -State, she always gave the young Couple something towards -House-keeping; and stood Godmother to all their Children, whom she -had in Parties, every <i>Sunday</i> Evening, to teach them their -Catechism, and <span class="newpage"><a name="page139" id= -"page139">[139]</a></span>lecture them in Religion and Morality; -after which she treated them with a Supper, gave them such Books as -they wanted, and then dispatched them with her Blessing. Nor did -she forget them at her Death, but left each a Legacy, as will be -seen among other charitable Donations when we publish her Will, -which we may do in some future Volume. There is one Request however -so singular, that we cannot help taking some Notice of it in this -Place; which is, that of her giving so many Acres of Land to be -planted yearly with Potatoes, for all the Poor of any Parish who -would come and fetch them for the Use of their Families; but if any -took them to sell they were deprived of that Privilege ever after. -And these Roots were planted and raised from the Rent arising from -a Farm which she had <span class="newpage"><a name="page140" id= -"page140">[140]</a></span>assigned over for that purpose. In short, -she was a Mother to the Poor, a Physician to the Sick, and a Friend -to all who were in Distress. Her Life was the greatest Blessing, -and her Death the greatest Calamity that ever was felt in the -Neighbourhood. A Monument, but without Inscription, was erected to -her Memory in the Church-yard, over which the Poor as they pass -weep continually, so that the Stone is ever bathed in Tears.</p> - -<p>On this Occasion the following Lines were spoken extempore by a -young Gentleman.</p> - -<p><i> How vain the Tears that fall from you,<br> - And here supply the Place of Dew?<br> - How vain to weep the happy Dead,<br> - Who now to heavenly Realms are fled?<br> - Repine no more, your Plaints forbear,<br> - And all prepare to meet them there.</i></p> - -<center> -<h3>The E N D.</h3> -</center> - -<br> -<br> -<br> -<br> -<span class="newpage"><a name="page141" id= -"page141">[141]</a></span> - -<center> -<h3>A P P -E N D I X.</h3> - -<p><i>The</i> -G<small> O L D E N </small> -D<small> R E A M </small> ; <i>or, the</i> -I<small> N G E N U O U S</small> -C<small> O N F E S S I O N</small> -.</p> -</center> - -<center><img src="images/image34.png" width="384" height="302" alt= -"Appendix" border="0"></center> - -<p>To shew the Depravity of human Nature, and how apt the Mind is -to be misled by Trinkets and false Appearances, Mrs. -<i>Two-Shoes</i> does acknowledge, that after she became rich, she -had like to have been too fond of Money; for on seeing her Husband -receive a very large Sum, her Heart went pit pat, pit pat, all the -<span class="newpage"><a name="page142" id= -"page142">[142]</a></span>Evening, and she began to think that -Guineas were pretty Things. To suppress this Turbulence of Mind, -which was a Symptom of approaching Avarice, she said her Prayers -earlier than usual, and at Night had the following Dream; which I -shall relate in her own Words.</p> - -<p>"Methought, as I slept, a Genii stept up to me with a -<i>French</i> Commode, which having placed on my Head, he said, now -go and be happy; for from henceforth every Thing you touch shall -turn to Gold. Willing to try the Experiment, I gently touched the -Bed-post and Furniture, which immediately became massy Gold -burnished, and of surprizing Brightness. I then touched the Walls -of the House, which assumed the same Appearance, and looked -amazingly magnificent. Elated with this wonderful Gift, I rang -hastily for my Maid to carry the joyful News to her Master, who, as -I thought, was then walking in the Garden. <i>Sukey</i> came, but -in the Extacy I was in, happening to touch her Hand, she became -instantly an immovable Statue. <span class="newpage"><a name= -"page143" id="page143">[143]</a></span>Go, said I, and call your -Master; but she made no reply, nor could she stir. Upon this I -shrieked, and in came my dear Husband, whom I ran to embrace; when -no sooner had I touched him, but he became good for nothing; that -is, good for nothing but his Weight in Gold; and that you know -could be nothing, where Gold was so plenty. At this instant up came -another Servant with a Glass of Water, thinking me ill; this I -attempted to swallow, but no sooner did it touch my Mouth, than it -became a hard solid Body, and unfit for drinking. My Distress now -grew insupportable! I had destroyed, as I thought, my dear Husband, -and my favourite Servant; and I plainly perceived, that I should -die for want in the midst of so much Wealth. Ah, said I, why did I -long for Riches! Having enough already, why did I covet more? Thus -terrified, I began to rave, and beat my Breast, which awaked Sir -<i>Charles</i>, who kindly called me from this State of Inquietude, -and composed my Mind."</p> - -<span class="newpage"><a name="page144" id= -"page144">[144]</a></span> - -<p>This Scene I have often considered as a Lesson, instructing me, -that a Load of Riches bring, instead of Felicity, a Load of -Troubles; and that the only Source of Happiness is -<i>Contentment</i>. Go, therefore, you who have too much, and give -it to those who are in want; so shall you be happy yourselves, by -making others happy. This is a Precept from the Almighty, a Precept -which must be regarded; for <i>The Lord is about your Paths, and -about your Bed, and spieth out all your Ways</i>.</p> - -<br> -<p><i>An Anecdote, respecting</i> T <small>O M</small> T <small>W -O</small>-S <small>H O E S</small>, <i>communicated by a Gentleman, -who is now writing the History of his Life.</i></p> - -<p>It is generally known, that <i>Tom Two-Shoes</i> went to Sea -when he was a very little Boy, and very poor; and that he returned -a very great Man, and very rich; but no one knows how he acquired -so much Wealth but myself, and a few <span class="newpage"><a name= -"page145" id="page145">[145]</a></span>Friends, who have perused -the Papers from which I am compiling the History of his Life.</p> - -<p>After <i>Tom</i> had been at Sea some Years, he was -unfortunately cast away, on that Part of the Coast of <i>Africa</i> -inhabited by the <i>Hottentots</i>. Here he met with a strange -Book, which the <i>Hottentots</i> did not understand, and which -gave him some Account of <i>Prester John's</i> Country; and being a -Lad of great Curiosity and Resolution he determined to see it; -accordingly he set out on the Pursuit, attended by a young Lion, -which he had tamed and made so fond of him, that he followed him -like a Dog, and obeyed all his Commands; and indeed it was happy -for him that he had such a Companion; for as his Road lay through -large Woods and Forests, that were full of wild Beasts and without -Inhabitants, he must have been soon starved or torn in Pieces, had -he not been both fed and protected by this noble Animal.</p> - -<span class="newpage"><a name="page146" id= -"page146">[146]</a></span> - -<center><img src="images/image35.png" width="398" height="294" alt= -"Tom and the Lion" border="0"></center> - -<p><i>Tom</i> had provided himself with two Guns, a Sword, and as -much Powder and Ball as he could carry; with these Arms, and such a -Companion, it was mighty easy for him to get Food; for the Animals -in these wild and extensive Forests, having never seen the Effects -of a Gun, readily ran from the Lion, who hunted on one Side, to -<i>Tom</i>, who hunted on the other, so that they were either -caught by the Lion, or shot by his Master; and it was pleasant -enough, after a <span class="newpage"><a name="page147" id= -"page147">[147]</a></span>hunting Match, and the Meat was dressed, -to see how Cheek by Joul they sat down to Dinner.</p> - -<center><img src="images/image36.png" width="390" height="306" alt= -"Statue of a Man" border="0"></center> - -<p>When they came info the Land of <i>Utopia</i>, he discovered the -Statue of a Man created on an open Plain, which had this -Inscription on the Pedestal: <i>On</i> May-day <i>in the Morning, -when the Sun rises, I shall have a Head of Gold</i>. As it was now -the latter End of <i>April</i>, he stayed to see this wonderful -Change; and in the mean time, <span class="newpage"><a name= -"page148" id="page148">[148]</a></span>enquiring of a poor Shepherd -what was the Reason of the Statue being erected there, and with -that Inscription, he was informed, that it was set up many Years -ago by an <i>Arabian</i> Philosopher, who travelled all the World -over in Search of a real Friend; that he lived with, and was -extremely fond of a great Man who inhabited the next Mountain; but -that on some Occasion they quarrelled, and the Philosopher, leaving -the Mountain, retired into the Plain, where he erected this Statue -with his own Hands, and soon after died. To this he added, that all -the People for many Leagues round came there every <i>May</i> -Morning, expecting to see the Stone-head turned to Gold.</p> - -<p><i>Tom</i> got up very early on the first of <i>May</i> to -behold this amazing Change, and when he came near the Statue he saw -a Number of People, who all ran away from him in the utmost -Consternation, hating never before seen a Lion follow a Man like a -Lap-dog. Being thus left alone, he fixed his Eyes on the Sun, then -rising with <span class="newpage"><a name="page149" id= -"page149">[149]</a></span>resplendent Majesty, and afterwards -turned to the Statue, but could see no Change in the -Stone.--Surely, says he to himself, there is some mystical Meaning -in this! This Inscription must be an Ænigma, the hidden -Meaning of which I will endeavour to find; for a Philosopher would -never expect a Stone to be turned to Gold; accordingly he measured -the Length of the Shadow, which the Statue gave on the Ground by -the Sun shining on it, and marked that particular Part where the -Head fell, then getting a <i>Chopness</i> (a Thing like a Spade) -and digging, he discovered a Copper-chest, full of Gold, with this -Inscription engraved on the Lid of it.</p> - -<center> -<p>Thy W <small>I T</small>,<br> -Oh Man! whoever thou art,<br> -Hath disclos'd the Ænigma,<br> -And discover'd the G <small>O L D E N</small> H <small>E A -D</small>.<br> -Take it and use it,<br> -But use it with W <small>I S D O M</small>;<br> -For know,<br> -That G <small>O L D</small>, properly employ'd,<br> -<span class="newpage"><a name="page150" id= -"page150">[150]</a></span> May dispense Blessings,<br> -And promote the Happiness of Morals;<br> -But when hoarded up,<br> -Or misapply'd,<br> -Is but Trash, that makes Mankind miserable.<br> -Remember<br> -The unprofitable Servant,<br> -Who hid his <i>Talent</i> in a Napkin;<br> -And<br> -The profligate Son,<br> -Who squander'd away his Substance and<br> -fed with the Swine.<br> -As thou hast got the G <small>O L D E N</small> H <small>E A -D</small>,<br> -Observe the <i>Golden Mean</i>,<br> -Be <i>Good</i> and be happy.</p> -</center> - -<p>This Lesson, coming as it were from the Dead, struck him with -such Awe, and Reverence for Piety and Virtue, that, before he -removed the Treasure, he kneeled down, and earnestly and fervently -prayed that he might make a prudent, just and proper Use of it. He -then conveyed the Chest away; but how he got it to <i>England</i>, -the Reader <span class="newpage"><a name="page151" id= -"page151">[151]</a></span>will be informed in the History of his -Life. It may not be improper, however, in this Place, to give the -Reader some Account of the Philosopher who hid this Treasure, and -took so much Pains to find a true and real Friend to enjoy it. As -<i>Tom</i> had Reason to venerate his Memory, he was very -particular in his Enquiry, and had this Character of him;--that he -was a Man well acquainted with Nature and with Trade; that he was -pious, friendly, and of a sweet and affable Disposition. That he -had acquired a Fortune by Commerce, and having no Relations to -leave it to, he travelled through <i>Arabia, Persia, India, -Libia</i> and <i>Utopia</i> in search of a real Friend. In this -Pursuit he found several with whom he exchanged good Offices, and -that were polite and obliging, but they often flew off for Trifles; -or as soon as he pretended to be in Distress, and requested their -Assistance, left him to struggle with his own Difficulties. So true -is that Copy in our Books, which says, <i>Adversity is the -Touchstone of Friendship</i>. At last, however, he <span class= -"newpage"><a name="page152" id="page152">[152]</a></span>met with -the <i>Utopian</i> Philosopher, or the wise Man of the Mountain, as -he is called, and thought in him he had found the Friend he wanted; -for though he often pretended to be in Distress, and abandoned to -the Frowns of Fortune, this Man always relieved him, and with such -Chearfulness and Sincerity, that concluding he had found out the -only Man to whom he ought to open both his Purse and his Heart, he -let him so far into his Secrets, as to desire his Assistance in -hiding a large Sum of Money, which he wanted to conceal, lest the -Prince of the Country, who was absolute, should, by the Advice of -his wicked Minister, put him to Death for his Gold. The two -Philosophers met and hid the Money, which the Stranger, after some -Days, went to see, but found it gone. How was he struck to the -Heart, when he found that his Friend, whom he had often tried, and -who had relieved him in his Distress, could not withstand this -Temptation, but broke through the sacred Bonds of Friendship, and -turned even <span class="newpage"><a name="page153" id= -"page153">[153]</a></span>a Thief for Gold which he did not want, -as he was already very rich. Oh! said he, what is the Heart of Man -made of? Why am I condemned to live among People who have no -Sincerity, and who barter the most sacred Ties of Friendship and -Humanity for the Dirt that we tread on? Had I lost my Gold and -found a real Friend, I should have been happy with the Exchange, -but now I am most miserable. After some Time he wiped off his -Tears, and being determined not to be so imposed on, he had -Recourse to Cunning and the Arts of Life. He went to his pretended -Friend with a chearful Countenance, told him he had more Gold to -hide, and desired him to appoint a Time when they might go -together, and open the Earth to put it into the same Pot; the -other, in Hopes of getting more Wealth, appointed the next Evening. -They went together, opened the Ground, and found the Money they had -first placed there, for the artful Wretch, he so much confided in, -had conveyed it again into the Pot, in order to obtain more. <span -class="newpage"><a name="page154" id="page154">[154]</a></span>Our -Philosopher immediately took the Gold, and putting it into his -Pocket, told the other he had now altered his Mind, and should bury -it no more, till he found a Man more worthy of his Confidence. See -what People lose by being dishonest. This calls to my Mind the -Words of the Poet:</p> - -<p><i> A Wit's a Feather, and a Chief's a Rod,<br> - An honest Man's the noblest Work of God.</i></p> - -<p>Remember this Story, and take Care whom you trust; but don't be -covetous, sordid and miserable; for the Gold we have is but lent us -to do Good with. We received all from the Hand of God, and every -Person in Distress hath a just Title to a Portion of it.</p> - -<br> -<br> -<br> -<br> -<span class="newpage"><a name="page155" id= -"page155">[155]</a></span> - -<center> -<p><i>A</i> L <small>E T T E R</small> <i>from the</i> P -<small>R I N T E R</small>,<br> -<i>which he desires may be inserted</i>.</p> -</center> - -<p>S <small>I R</small>,</p> - -<p>I have done with your Copy, so you may return it to the -<i>Vatican</i>, if you please; and pray tell Mr. <i>Angelo</i> to -brush up the Cuts, that, in the next Edition, they may give us a -good Impression.</p> - -<p>The Foresight and Sagacity of Mrs. <i>Margery</i> 's Dog calls -to my Mind a Circumstance, which happened when I was a Boy. Some -Gentlemen in the Place where I lived had been hunting, and were got -under a great Tree to shelter themselves from a Thunder Storm; when -a Dog that always followed one of the Gentlemen leaped up his Horse -several Times, and then ran away and barked. At last, the Gentlemen -all followed to see what he would be at; and they were no sooner -gone from the Tree, but it was shivered in Pieces by Lightning! -'Tis remarkable, that as soon as they came from the Tree the Dog -appeared to be very well satisfied, and barked no more. The -Gentleman after this always regarded the Dog as his Friend, treated -him in his Old <span class="newpage"><a name="page156" id= -"page156">[156]</a></span>Age with great Tenderness, and fed him -with Milk as long as he lived.</p> - -<p>My old Master <i>Grierson</i> had also a Dog, that ought to be -mentioned with Regard; for he used to set him up as a Pattern of -Sagacity and Prudence, not only to his Journeymen, but to the whole -Neighbours. This Dog had been taught a thousand Tricks, and among -other Feats he could dance, tumble, and drink Wine and Punch till -he was little better than mad. It happened one Day, when the Men -had made him drunk with Liquor, and he was capering about, that he -fell into a large Vessel of boiling Water. They soon got him out, -and he recovered; but he was very much hurt, and being sensible, -that this Accident arose from his losing his Senses by Drinking, he -would never taste any strong Liquor afterwards.--My old Master, on -relating this Story, and shewing the Dog, used to address us thus, -<i>Ah, my Friends, had you but half the Sense of this poor Dog -here, you would never get fuddled, and be Fools.</i></p> - -<p align="right">I am, Sir, Your's, -&c. W.B.</p> - -<span class="newpage"><a name="page157" id= -"page157">[157]</a></span> - -<p>The B <small>O O K S</small> usually read by the Scholars of -Mrs. T <small>W O</small>-S <small>H O E S</small>, are these, and -are sold at Mr. N <small>E W B E R Y</small>'s at the <i>Bible</i> -and <i>Sun</i> in St. <i>Paul's</i> Church-yard.</p> - -<table summary="Mrs. Two-Shoes Books"> -<tr> -<td valign="top">1.</td> -<td>The <i>Christmas-Box</i>, Price 1d.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td valign="top">2.</td> -<td>The History of <i>Giles Gingerbread</i>, 1d.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td valign="top">3.</td> -<td>The <i>New-Year's-Gift</i>, 2d.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td valign="top">4.</td> -<td>The <i>Easter-Gift</i>, 2d.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td valign="top">5.</td> -<td>The <i>Whitsuntide-Gift</i>, 2d.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td valign="top">6.</td> -<td>The <i>Twelfth-Day-Gift</i>, 1s.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td valign="top">7.</td> -<td>The <i>Valentine's-Gift</i>, 6d.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td valign="top">8.</td> -<td>The F <small>A I R I N G</small> or <i>Golden Toy</i>, 6d.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td valign="top">9.</td> -<td>The <i>Royal Battledore</i>, 2d.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td valign="top">10.</td> -<td>The <i>Royal Primer</i>, 3d.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td valign="top">11.</td> -<td>The <i>Little Lottery-Book</i>, 3d.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td valign="top">12.</td> -<td>The <i>Little Pretty Pocket-Book</i>, 6d.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td valign="top">13.</td> -<td>The <i>Infant Tutor</i>, <i>or pretty Little Spelling-Book</i>, -6d.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td valign="top">14.</td> -<td>The <i>Pretty Book for Children</i>, 6d.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td valign="top">15.</td> -<td><i>Tom Trapwit's Art of being Merry and Wife</i>, 6d.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td valign="top">16.</td> -<td><i>Tom Trip's History of Birds and Beasts</i>, Price 6d.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td valign="top">17.</td> -<td><i>Food for the Mind</i>, <i>or a New Riddle Book</i>, 6d.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td valign="top">18.<span class="newpage"><a name="page158" id= -"page158">[158]</a></span></td> -<td><i>Fables in Verse and Prose by Æsop, and your old Friend -Woglog</i>, 6d.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td valign="top">19.</td> -<td>The <i>Holy Bible abridged</i>, 6d.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td valign="top">20.</td> -<td>The <i>History of the Creation</i>, 6d.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td valign="top">21.</td> -<td><i>A new and noble History of England</i>, 6d.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td valign="top">22.</td> -<td><i>Philosophy for Children</i>, 6d.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td valign="top">23.</td> -<td><i>Philosophy of Tops and Balls</i>, 1s.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td valign="top">24.</td> -<td><i>Pretty Poems for Children 3 Foot high</i>, 6d.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td valign="top">25.</td> -<td><i>Pretty Poems for Children 6 Foot high</i>, 1s.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td valign="top">26.</td> -<td><i>Lilliputian Magazine, or Golden Library</i>, 1s.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td valign="top">27.</td> -<td><i>Short Histories for the Improvement of the Mind</i>, -1s.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td valign="top">28.</td> -<td>The <i>New Testament</i>, adapted to the Capacities of -Children, 1s.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td valign="top">29.</td> -<td>The Life of our Blessed S <small>A V I O U R</small>, 1s.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td valign="top">30.</td> -<td>The Lives of the Holy <i>Apostles</i> and <i>Evangelists</i>, -1s.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td valign="top">31.</td> -<td>The Lives of the <i>Fathers</i> of the <i>Christian</i> Church -for the first four Centuries, 1s.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td valign="top">32.</td> -<td>A Concise <i>Exposition</i> of the Book of <i>Common -Prayer</i>, with the Lives of its <i>Compilers</i>, 1s.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td valign="top">33.</td> -<td>The <i>Museum</i> for Youth, 1s.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td valign="top">34.<span class="newpage"><a name="page159" id= -"page159">[159]</a></span></td> -<td>An Easy <i>Spelling Dictionary</i> for those who would write -correctly, 1s.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td valign="top">35.</td> -<td>A <i>Pocket Dictionary</i> for those who would know the precise -Meaning of all the Words in the <i>English</i> Language, 3s.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td valign="top">36.</td> -<td>A Compendious History of <i>England</i>, 2s.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td valign="top">37.</td> -<td>The Present State of <i>Great Britain</i>, 2s.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td valign="top">38.</td> -<td>A Little Book of Letters and Cards, to teach young Ladies and -Gentlemen how to write to their Friends in a polite, easy and -elegant Manner, 1s.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td valign="top">39.</td> -<td>The Gentleman and Lady's Key to <i>Polite Literature</i>; or, A -<i>Compendious Dictionary</i> of Fabulous History, 2s.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td valign="top">40.</td> -<td>The News-Readers Pocket-Book; or, A <i>Military Dictionary</i>, -2s.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td valign="top">41.</td> -<td>A Curious Collection of Voyages, selected from the Writers of -all Nations, 10 Vol. Pr. bound 1l.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td valign="top">42.</td> -<td>A Curious Collection of Travels, selected from the Writers of -all Nations, 10 Vol; Pr. bound 1l.</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<span class="newpage"><a name="page160" id= -"page160">[160]</a></span> - -<center> -<p>By the KING'S Royal Patent,</p> -</center> - -<p>Are Sold by J. 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You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org - - -Title: Goody Two-Shoes - A Facsimile Reproduction Of The Edition Of 1766 - -Author: Anonymous - -Release Date: October 8, 2004 [EBook #13675] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ASCII - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK GOODY TWO-SHOES *** - - - - -Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Tom Roch, Leah Moser and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team. - - - - - - GOODY TWO-SHOES - - A FACSIMILE REPRODUCTION - - OF THE - - EDITION OF 1766 - - _WITH AN INTRODUCTION_ - - BY - - CHARLES WELSH - - - - - GRIFFITH & FARRAN - - _Successors to Newbery & Harris_ - - WEST CORNER OF ST PAUL'S CHURCHYARD, LONDON - - 1881 - - - - - INTRODUCTION. - - * * * * * - - -In _The London Chronicle_ for December 19--January 1, 1765--the -following advertisement appeared:-- - - "The Philosophers, Politicians, Necromancers, and the Learned in every - Faculty are desired to observe that on the 1st of January, being New - Year's Day (Oh, that we may all lead new Lives!), Mr Newbery intends - to publish the following important volumes, bound and gilt, and hereby - invites all his little friends who are good to call for them at the - Bible and Sun, in St Paul's Churchyard: but those who are naughty are - to have none. - - "1. The Renowned History of Giles Gingerbread: a little boy who lived - upon learning. - - "2. The Easter Gift; or the way to be good; a book much wanted. - - "3. The Whitsuntide Gift: or the way to be happy; a book very necessary - for all families. - - "4. The Valentine Gift: or how to behave with honour, integrity, and - humanity: very useful with a Trading Nation. - - "5. The Fairing: or a golden present for children. In which they can - see all the fun of the fair, and at home be as happy as if they were - there, a Book of great consequence to all whom it may concern.' - - "We are also desired to give notice that there is in the Press, and - speedily will be published either by subscription or otherwise, as the - Public shall please to determine, The History of Little Goody Two - Shoes, otherwise called Margery Two Shoes. Printed and sold at The - Bible and Sun in St Paul's Churchyard, where may be had all Mr - Newbery's little books for the children and youth of these kingdoms - and the colonies. New Editions of those which were out of print are - now republished. - - "The publication of the Lilliputian System of Politics is postponed - till the meeting of Parliament. This work, which will be replete with - cuts and characters, is not intended to exalt or depress any - particular country, to support the pride of any particular family, or - to feed the folly of any particular party, but to stimulate the mind - to virtue, to promote universal benevolence, to make mankind happy. - Those who would know more of the matter may enquire of Mr Newbery." - -This quaint and curious announcement, with its sly humour and serious -playfulness, is characteristic of the house of John Newbery, in the -latter part of the last century; and there is no need to speak here of -the fame of the books for children which he published; "the -philanthropic publisher of St Paul's Churchyard," as Goldsmith calls -him, conferred inestimable benefits upon thousands of little folk, of -both high and low estate. It is said of Southey when a child that - - "The well-known publishers of "Goody Two Shoes," "Giles Gingerbread," - and other such delectable histories, in sixpenny books for children, - splendidly bound in the flowered and gilt Dutch paper of former days, - sent him twenty such volumes, and laid the foundation of a love of - books which grew with the child's growth, and did not cease even when - the vacant mind and eye could only gaze in piteous, though blissful - imbecility upon the things they loved."[A] - -Many of these little books have been doubtless long since forgotten, -though they did not deserve such a fate; but the name of "Goody Two -Shoes" is still familiar to the ears of English children, though the -book itself may be unknown to thousands of little ones of this later -generation. - -"Goody Two Shoes" was published in April 1765, and few nursery books -have had a wider circulation, or have retained their position so long. -The number of editions that have been published both in England and -America is legion, and it has appeared in mutilated versions under the -auspices of numerous publishing houses in London and the provinces, -although of late years there have been no new issues. Even in 1802, -Charles Lamb in writing to Coleridge, said-- - - ""Goody Two Shoes" is almost out of print. Mrs Barbauld's stuff has - banished all the old classics of the nursery, and the shopman at - Newbery's hardly deigned to reach them off an old exploded corner of - a shelf, when Mary asked for them. Mrs Barbauld's and Mrs Trimmer's - nonsense lay in piles about. Knowledge, insignificant and vapid as Mrs - Barbauld's books convey, it seems must come to a child in the shape of - knowledge; and his empty noddle must be turned with conceit of his own - powers when he has learnt that a horse is an animal, and Billy is - better than a horse, and such like, instead of that beautiful interest - in wild tales, which made the child a man, while all the time he - suspected himself to be no bigger than a child. Science has succeeded - to poetry no less in the little walks of children than with men. Is - there no possibility of averting this sore evil? Think what you would - have been now, if instead of being fed with tales and old wives' - fables in childhood, you had been crammed with geography and natural - history! - - "Hang them!--I mean the cursed Barbauld crew, those blights and blasts - of all that is human in man and child."[B] - -There must, however, be many parents still living who remember the -delight that the little story gave them in their younger days, and -they will, no doubt, be pleased to see it once more in the form which -was then so familiar to them. The children of to-day, too, will look -on it with some curiosity, on account of the fact that it is one of -the oldest of our nursery tales, and amused and edified their -grand-parents and great grand-parents when they were children, while -they cannot fail to be attracted by its simple, pretty, and -interesting story. - - * * * * * - -The question of the authorship of the book is still an unsettled one. -It was at one time commonly attributed to Oliver Goldsmith, and no one -who reads the book will consider it to be unworthy of the poet's pen. -We find, however, in Nichol's Literary Anecdotes, that - - "It is not perhaps generally known that to Mr Griffith Jones, and a - brother of his, Mr Giles Jones, in conjunction with Mr John Newbery, - the public are indebted for the origin of those numerous and popular - little books for the amusement and instruction of children which have - been ever since received with universal approbation. The Lilliputian - histories of Goody Two Shoes, Giles Gingerbread, Tommy Trip, &c., &c., - are remarkable proofs of the benevolent minds of the projectors of - this plan of instruction, and respectable instances of the - accommodation of superior talents to the feeble intellects of - infantine felicity." - -Mr Giles Jones was the grandfather of the late Mr Winter Jones, -formerly the Principal Librarian of the British Museum, and the book -is attributed to the first-named gentleman in the catalogue of the -British Museum. It is claimed also that the book offers internal -evidence in support of Mr Giles Jones' authorship, inasmuch as Goody -Two Shoes becomes Lady Jones, and one of the prominent families in the -book is also named Jones. - -Beyond this, however, there appears to be no evidence as to Mr Giles -Jones being the writer, and I think something may be said as to the -claim on behalf of the poet Goldsmith, although I am by no means -anxious that the honour of having written it should be ascribed either -to the one or to the other: the following remarks, which are mainly -taken from an article I contributed to the _Athenaeum_ in April -1881, are offered simply as speculations which may not be without -interest to lovers of the little book. They may, perhaps, show that -there is some reason for attributing the work to Oliver Goldsmith, -although, of course, it is not claimed that they absolutely establish -the fact. - -Having occasion to examine carefully as many of the books for children -published by John Newbery as I could procure (and they are as scarce -as blackberries in midwinter, for what among books has so brief a life -as a nursery book?), I was struck while perusing them with a certain -distinct literary flavour, so to speak, which appeared to be common to -a group of little volumes, all published about the same period. These -were: "Goody Two Shoes," "Giles Gingerbread," "Tom Thumb's Folio," -"The Lilliputian Magazine," "The Lilliputian Masquerade," "The Easter -Gift," "A Pretty Plaything," "The Fairing," "Be Merry and Wise," "The -Valentine's Gift," "Pretty Poems for the Amusement of Children Three -Feet High," "A Pretty Book of Pictures," "Tom Telescope," and a few -others. I give abbreviated titles only, but if space permitted I mould -like to quote them in full; they are remarkable no less for their -curious quaintness and their clever ingenuity than for their -attractiveness to both parents (who, it must not be forgotten, are -more often the real buyers of children's books) and the young people -for whom they were written, and they are in themselves most -entertaining and amusing reading. This group of little books -possesses, moreover, another characteristic that is sufficiently -remarkable of itself to be noticed. While they all evince a real -genius for writing in a style suited to the capacities of little folk, -there is a nameless something about them which, far more than is the -case with thousands of other books for the young, is calculated to -enforce the attention and excite the interest of "children of a larger -growth." - -Now one of this little group, "The Lilliputian Magazine," is -attributed in the British Museum Catalogue to Oliver Goldsmith; and so -strong is the family likeness in all the books I have mentioned, that -I cannot but believe they are all by the same hand--a belief which I -think will be shared by any one who will take the trouble to compare -them carefully. But I should advise him to rely on the Newbery -editions alone, for grievously garbled versions of nearly every one of -these books have been issued from many different houses throughout the -country. - -Many authorities have supported the view that Goldsmith was the author -of "Goody Two Shoes." Conspicuous among them was Washington Irving, -who says, "It is suggested with great probability that he wrote for Mr -Newbery the famous nursery story of 'Goody Two Shoes.'" It is said -also that William Godwin held this opinion; and I believe there is -authority for stating that the Misses Bewick, the daughters of the -celebrated engraver, who illustrated an edition of the book for T. -Saint, of Newcastle, understood from their father that it was by -Oliver Goldsmith. - -But let us turn to the book itself and see if it furnishes any -evidence on the point. The very title, with its quaint phrasing, shows -no common genius, and as Washington Irving says, "bears the stamp of -his [Goldsmith's] sly and playful humour." As the book was published -in 1765, it would most likely have been written just at the time when -Goldsmith was working most industriously in the service of Newbery -(1763-4), at which period it will be remembered that he was living -near Newbery at Islington, and his publisher was paying for his board -and lodging. - -Without, of course, claiming that similarity of idea in different -writings necessarily betokens the same authorship, I think the -parallels that are to be found in this little book, with many of the -sentiments in Oliver Goldsmith's acknowledged work--to say nothing of -the almost universally recognized likeness to Goldsmith's style that -is found in "Goody Two Shoes" may fairly be considered as throwing -some light upon the question. - -The most striking of these parallels is perhaps that furnished by the -curious little political preface to the work--a preface which is quite -unnecessary to the book, and I think would only have been inserted by -one who was full of the unjustnesses at which he was preparing to aim -a still heavier blow. In describing the parish of Mouldwell, where -little Margery was born, an exact picture is drawn of "The Deserted -Village," where - - One only master grasps the whole domain - And half a tillage tints thy smiling plain; - -And where - - ---- the man of wealth and pride - Takes up a space that many a poor supplied: - Space for his lakes his park's extended bounds, - Space for his horses, equipage, and hounds. - -And by this and other tyrannies, and being also - - Scourged by famine from the smiling land, - -for he was "unfortunate in his business" at about the same time, Sir -Timothy accomplishes his aim, and - - Indignant spurns the cottage from the green. - -Ruined by this oppression, poor Mr Meanwell is turned out of doors, -and flew to another parish for succour. - - Where, then, ah! where shall poverty reside - To 'scape the pressure of contiguous pride? - -Sir Timothy, however, suffers for his injustice and wickedness, for -"great part of the land lay untilled for some years, which was deemed -a just reward for such diabolical proceedings." - - Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, - Where wealth accumulates and men decay. - -Miss Charlotte Yonge, to whom I shall refer again, lays upon this: "If -the conjecture be true which attributes this tale to Oliver Goldsmith, -we have seen the same spirit which prompted his poem of 'The Deserted -Village,' namely, indignation and dismay at the discouragement of -small holdings in the early part of the eighteenth century."[C] -Indeed, it may well be that we have in this preface even a more true -picture of Lissoy than that given in the poem, which, as Mr William -Black says in his monograph on Goldsmith, "is there seen through the -softening and beautifying mist of years." - -Much more might be said of the characteristics of this little book, -which contains so much that reminds us not only of the style but the -matter of many of Goldsmith's writings. Miss Yonge says: "There is a -certain dry humour in some passages and a tenderness in others that -incline us much to the belief that it could come from no one else but -the writer of 'The Vicar of Wakefield' and 'The Deserted Village.' -Indeed, we could almost imagine that Dr Primrose himself had described -the panic at the supposed ghost in the church in the same tone as the -ride to church, the family portrait, or the gross of green -spectacles.'[D] We find in "Goody Two Shoes" every one of those -distinctive qualities of Goldsmith's writings which Mr William Black -so well summarizes in the book already referred to--"his genuine and -tender pathos, that never at any time verges on the affected or -theatrical;" his "quaint, delicate, delightful humour;" his "broader -humour, that is not afraid to provoke the wholesome laughter of -mankind by dealing with common and familiar ways and manners and men;" -his "choiceness of diction;" his "lightness and grace of touch, that -lend a charm even to" his "ordinary hack work." - - * * * * * - -The reprint which is here presented is a photographic facsimile of -the earliest complete copy that we have been able to procure. Judging -from fragments of earlier editions in the possession of the -publishers, it would appear to be printed from exactly the same types -as the original issue of April 1765. The copy from which the reprint -is made was kindly lent to the publishers by Mr Ernest Hartley -Coleridge, whose collection at the South Kensington Museum of -eighteenth century books for children is well known. The actual size -of that book is 4 inches by 2-3/4, but it has been thought better to -print on somewhat larger paper. The original is bound in the once -familiar Dutch flowered and gilt pattern paper, and we had hoped to -present the reprint in a similar cover, but it was found impossible, -as nothing like it could be procured, nor could the manufacturers of -the present day exactly reproduce it. - -[Footnote A: Essays from the _Times_. Robert Southey. By Samuel -Phillips, pp. 168-169, vol. i.] - -[Footnote B: _See_ "The Works of Charles Lamb." By Percy -Fitzgerald, M.A., F.S.A. Vol. 1. Page 420. London: E. Moxon & Co., -1876.] - -[Footnote C: "A Storehouse of Stories," p. 69, First Series.] - -[Footnote D: "A Storehouse of Stories," First Series, preface.] - - - - -[Illustration: Little Goody Two-Shoes.] - - - THE - - HISTORY - - OF - - Little GOODY TWO-SHOES; - - Otherwise called, - - Mrs. MARGERY TWO-SHOES. - - WITH - -The Means by which she acquired her Learning and Wisdom, and in -consequence thereof her Estate; set forth at large for the Benefit -of those, - - _Who from a State of Rags and Care - And having Shoes but half a Pair; - Their Fortune and their Fame would fix, - And gallop in a Coach and Six._ - -See the Original Manuscript in the _Vatican_ at _Rome_, and -the Cuts by _Michael Angelo_. Illustrated with the Comments of -our great modern Critics. - - ------------------------ - The THIRD EDITION. - ------------------------ - _LONDON_: - - Printed for J. NEWBERY, at the _Bible_ and - _Sun_ in St._Paul's-Church-Yard,_ 1766. - (Price Six-pence.) - - - - TO ALL - - Young Gentlemen and Ladies, - - Who are good, or intend to be good, - - This BOOK - - Is inscribed by - - Their old Friend - - In St. Paul's Church-yard. - - - - The Renowned - - HISTORY - - OF - - Little GOODY TWO-SHOES, - - Commonly called, - - Old GOODY TWO-SHOES. - - - ------------------------ - PART I. - ------------------------ - - INTRODUCTION. By the Editor. - - -All the World must allow, that _Two Shoes_ was not her real Name. -No; her Father's Name was _Meanwell_; and he was for many Years a -considerable Farmer in the Parish where _Margery_ was born; but -by the Misfortunes which he met with in Business, and the wicked -Persecutions of Sir _Timothy Gripe_, and an over-grown Farmer -called _Graspall_, he was effectually ruined. - -The Case was thus. The Parish of _Mouldwell_ where they lived, -had for many Ages been let by the Lord of the Manor into twelve -different Farms, in which the Tenants lived comfortably, brought up -large Families, and carefully supported the poor People who laboured -for them; until the Estate by Marriage and by Death came into the -Hands of Sir _Timothy_. - -This Gentleman, who loved himself better than all his Neighbours, -thought it less Trouble to write one Receipt for his Rent than twelve, -and Farmer _Graspall_ offering to take all the Farms as the Leases -expired, Sir _Timothy_ agreed with him, and in Process of Time he was -possessed of every Farm, but that occupied by little _Margery's_ -Father; which he also wanted; for as Mr. _Meanwell_ was a charitable -good Man, he stood up for the Poor at the Parish Meetings, and was -unwilling to have them oppressed by Sir _Timothy_, and this -avaricious Farmer.--Judge, oh kind, humane and courteous Reader, what -a terrible Situation the Poor must be in, when this covetous Man was -perpetual Overseer, and every Thing for their Maintenance was drawn -from his hard Heart and cruel Hand. But he was not only perpetual -Overseer, but perpetual Church-warden; and judge, oh ye Christians, -what State the Church must be in, when supported by a Man without -Religion or Virtue. He was also perpetual Surveyor of the Highways, -and what Sort of Roads he kept up for the Convenience of Travellers, -those best know who have had the Misfortune to be obliged to pass -thro' that Parish.--Complaints indeed were made, but to what Purpose -are Complaints, when brought against a Man, who can hunt, drink, and -smoak with the Lord of the Manor, who is also the Justice of Peace? - -The Opposition which little _Margery's_ Father made to this Man's -Tyranny, gave Offence to Sir _Timothy_, who endeavoured to force -him out of his Farm; and to oblige him to throw up the Lease, ordered -both a Brick Kiln and a Dog-kennel to be erected in the Farmer's -Orchard. This was contrary to Law, and a Suit was commenced, in which -_Margery's_ Father got the better. The same Offence was again -committed three different Times, and as many Actions brought, in all -of which the Farmer had a Verdict and Costs paid him; but -notwithstanding these Advantages, the Law was so expensive, that he -was ruined in the Contest, and obliged to give up all he had to his -Creditors; which effectually answered the Purpose of Sir -_Timothy_, who erected those Nuisances in the Farmer's Orchard -with that Intention only. Ah, my dear Reader, we brag of Liberty, and -boast of our Laws: but the Blessings of the one, and the Protection of -the other, seldom fall to the Lot of the Poor; and especially when a -rich Man is their Adversary. How, in the Name of Goodness, can a poor -Wretch obtain Redress, when thirty Pounds are insufficient to try his -Cause? Where is he to find Money to see Council, or how can he plead -his Cause himself (even if he was permitted) when our Laws are so -obscure, and so multiplied, that an Abridgment of them cannot be -contained in fifty Volumes in Folio? - -As soon as Mr. _Meanwell_ had called together his Creditors, Sir -_Timothy_ seized for a Year's Rent, and turned the Farmer, his -Wife, little _Margery_, and her Brother out of Doors, without any -of the Necessaries of Life to support them. - -[Illustration] - -This elated the Heart of Mr. _Graspall_, this crowned his Hopes, -and filled the Measure of his Iniquity; for besides gratifying his -Revenge, this Man's Overthrow gave him the sole Dominion of the Poor, -whom he depressed and abused in a Manner too horrible to mention. - -_Margery's_ Father flew into another Parish for Succour, and all -those who were able to move left their Dwellings and sought Employment -elsewhere, as they found it would be impossible to live under the -Tyranny of two such People. The very old, the very lame and the blind -were obliged to stay behind, and whether they were starved, or what -became of them, History does not say; but the Character of the great -Sir _Timothy_, and his avaricious Tenant, were so infamous, that -nobody would work for them by the Day, and Servants were afraid to -engage themselves by the Year, lest any unforeseen Accident should -leave them Parishioners in a Place, where they knew they must perish -miserably; so that great Part of the Land lay untilled for some Years, -which was deemed a just Reward for such diabolical Proceedings. - -But what, says the Reader, can occasion all this? Do you intend this -for Children, Mr. NEWBERY? Why, do you suppose this is written by Mr. -NEWBERY, Sir? This may come from another Hand. This is not the Book, -Sir, mentioned in the Title, but the Introduction to that Book; and it -is intended, Sir, not for those Sort of Children, but for Children of -six Feet high, of which, as my Friend has justly observed, there are -many Millions in the Kingdom; and these Reflections, Sir, have been -rendered necessary, by the unaccountable and diabolical Scheme which -many Gentlemen now give into, of laying a Number of Farms into one, -and very often of a whole Parish into one Farm; which in the End must -reduce the common People to a State of Vassalage, worse than that -under the Barons of old, or of the Clans in _Scotland_; and will -in Time depopulate the Kingdom. But as you are tired of the Subject, I -shall take myself away, and you may visit _Little Margery_. So, -Sir, your Servant, - -The EDITOR. - - - - - CHAP. I. - - _How and about Little_ Margery _and her_ Brother. - - -Care and Discontent shortened the Days of Little _Margery's_ -Father.--He was forced from his Family, and seized with a violent -Fever in a Place where Dr. _James's_ Powder was not to be had, -and where he died miserably. _Margery's_ poor Mother survived the -Loss of her Husband but a few Days, and died of a broken Heart, -leaving _Margery_ and her little Brother to the wide World; but, -poor Woman, it would have melted your Heart to have seen how -frequently she heaved up her Head, while she lay speechless, to survey -with languishing Looks her little Orphans, as much as to say, _Do -Tommy, do Margery, come with me_. They cried, poor Things, and she -sighed away her Soul; and I hope is happy. - -[Illustration] - -It would both have excited your Pity, and have done your Heart good, -to have seen how fond these two little ones were of each other, and -how, Hand in Hand, they trotted about. Pray see them. - -[Illustration] - -They were both very ragged, and _Tommy_ had two Shoes, but -_Margery_ had but one. They had nothing, poor Things, to support -them (not being in their own Parish) but what they picked from the -Hedges, or got from the poor People, and they lay every Night in a -Barn. Their Relations took no Notice of them; no, they were rich, and -ashamed to own such a poor little ragged Girl as _Margery_, and -such a dirty little curl-pated Boy as _Tommy_. Our Relations and -Friends seldom take Notice of us when we are poor; but as we grow rich -they grow fond. And this will always be the Case, while People love -Money better than Virtue, or better than they do GOD Almighty. But -such wicked Folks, who love nothing but Money, and are proud and -despise the Poor, never come to any good in the End, as we shall see -by and by. - - - - - CHAP. II. - - _How and about Mr._ Smith. - - -Mr. _Smith_ was a very worthy Clergyman, who lived in the Parish -where Little _Margery_ and _Tommy_ were born; and having a -Relation come to see him, who was a charitable good Man, he sent for -these Children to him. The Gentleman ordered Little _Margery_ a -new Pair of Shoes, gave Mr. _Smith_ some Money to buy her -Cloathes; and said, he would take _Tommy_ and make him a little -Sailor; and accordingly had a Jacket and Trowsers made for him, in -which he now appears. Pray look at him. - -[Illustration] - -After some Days the Gentleman intended to go to _London_, and -take little _Tommy_ with him, of whom you will know more by and -by, for we shall at a proper Time present you with some Part of his -History, his Travels and Adventures. - -[Illustration] - -The Parting between these two little Children was very affecting, -_Tommy_ cried, and _Margery_ cried, and they kissed each -other an hundred Times. At last _Tommy_ thus wiped off her Tears -with the End of his Jacket, and bid her cry no more, for that he would -come to her again, when he returned from Sea. However, as they were so -very fond, the Gentleman would not suffer them to take Leave of each -other; but told _Tommy_ he should ride out with him, and come -back at Night. When night came, Little _Margery_ grew very uneasy -about her Brother, and after sitting up as late as Mr. _Smith_ -would let her, she went crying to Bed. - - - - - CHAP. III. - - _How Little_ Margery _obtained the Name of_ - Goody Two-Shoes, _and what happened in the Parish._ - - -As soon as Little _Margery_ got up in the Morning, which was very -early, she ran all round the Village, crying for her Brother; and -after some Time returned greatly distressed. However, at this Instant, -the Shoemaker very opportunely came in with the new Shoes, for which -she had been measured by the Gentleman's Order. - -[Illustration] - -Nothing could have supported Little _Margery_ under the -Affliction she was in for the Loss of her Brother, but the Pleasure -she took in her _two Shoes_. She ran out to Mrs. _Smith_ as -soon as they were put on, and stroking down her ragged Apron thus, -cried out, _Two Shoes, Mame, see two Shoes_. And so she behaved -to all the People she met, and by that Means obtained the Name of -_Goody Two-Shoes_, though her Playmates called her _Old Goody -Two-Shoes_. - -Little _Margery_ was very happy in being with Mr. and Mrs. -_Smith_, who were very charitable and good to her, and had agreed -to breed her up with their Family; but as soon as that Tyrant of the -Parish, that _Graspall_, heard of her being there, he applied -first to Mr. _Smith_, and threatened to reduce his Tythes if he -kept her; and after that he spoke to Sir _Timothy_, who sent Mr. -_Smith_ a peremptory Message by his Servant, that _he should -send back_ Meanwell's _Girl to be kept by her Relations, and not -harbour her in the Parish_. This so distressed Mr. _Smith_ -that he shed Tears, and cried, _Lord have Mercy on the Poor!_ - -The Prayers of the Righteous fly upwards, and reach unto the Throne of -Heaven, as will be seen in the Sequel. - -[Illustration] - -Mrs. _Smith_ was also greatly concerned at being thus obliged to -discard poor Little _Margery_. She kissed her and cried; as also -did Mr. _Smith_, but they were obliged to send her away; for the -People who had ruined her Father could at any Time have ruined them. - - - - - CHAP. IV. - - _How Little_ Margery _learned to read, - and by Degrees taught others._ - - -Little _Margery_ saw how good, and how wise Mr. _Smith_ was, -and concluded, that this was owing to his great Learning, therefore -she wanted of all Things to learn to read. For this Purpose she used -to meet the little Boys and Girls as they came from School, borrow -their Books, and sit down and read till they returned; - -[Illustration] - -By this Means she soon got more Learning than any of her Playmates, -and laid the following Scheme for instructing those who were more -ignorant than herself. She found, that only the following Letters were -required to spell all the Words in the World; but as some of these -Letters are large and some small, she with her Knife cut out of -several Pieces of Wood ten Setts of each of these: - - a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o - p q r (s) s t u v w x y z. - -[Post-processor's note: (s) is an old-English style non-terminating -letter "s".] - - And six Setts of these: - - A B C D E F G H I K L M N O - P Q R S T U V W X Y Z. - -And having got an old Spelling-Book, she made her Companions set up -all the Words they wanted to spell, and after that she taught them to -compose Sentences. You know what a Sentence is, my Dear, _I will be -good_, is a Sentence; and is made up, as you see, of several Words. - -The usual Manner of Spelling, or carrying on the Game, as they called -it, was this: Suppose the Word to be spelt was Plumb Pudding (and who -can suppose a better) the Children were placed in a Circle, and the -first brought the Letter _P_, the next _l_, the next _u_, the next -_m_, and so on till the Whole was spelt; and if any one brought a -wrong Letter, he was to pay a Fine, or play no more. This was at their -Play; and every Morning she used to go round to teach the Children -with these Rattle-traps in a Basket, as you see in the Print. - -[Illustration] - -I once went her Rounds with her, and was highly diverted, as you may -be, if you please to look into the next Chapter. - - - - - CHAP. V. - - _How Little_ Two-Shoes _became a trotting Tutoress - and how she taught her young Pupils._ - - -It was about seven o'Clock in the Morning when we set out on this -important Business, and the first House we came to was Farmer -_Wilson's_. See here it is. - -[Illustration] - -Here _Margery_ stopped, and ran up to the Door, _Tap, tap, tap_. Who's -there? Only little goody _Two-Shoes_, answered _Margery_, come to -teach _Billy_. Oh Little _Goody_, says Mrs. _Wilson_, with Pleasure in -her Face, I am glad to see you, _Billy_ wants you sadly, for he has -learned all his Lesson. Then out came the little Boy. _How do doody -Two-Shoes_, says he, not able to speak plain. Yet this little Boy had -learned all his Letters; for she threw down this Alphabet mixed -together thus: - - b d f h k m o q s u w y z [f] - a c e g i l n p r t v x j - -and he picked them up, called them by their right Names, and put them -all in order thus: - - a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o - p q r (s) s t u v w x y z. - -[Post-processor's note: (s) is an old-English style non-terminating -letter "s".] - -She then threw down the Alphabet of Capital Letters in the Manner you -here see them. - - B D F H K M O Q S U W Y Z - A C E G I L N P R T V X J. - -and he picked them all up, and having told their Names, placed them -thus: - - A B C D E F G H I J K L M - N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z. - -Now, pray little Reader, take this Bodkin, and see if you can point -out the Letters from these mixed Alphabets, and tell how they should -be placed as well as little Boy _Billy_. - -The next Place we came to was Farmer _Simpson's_, and here it is. - -[Illustration] - -_Bow wow, wow_, says the Dog at the Door. Sirrah, says his -Mistress, what do you bark at Little _Two-Shoes_. Come in -_Madge_; here, _Sally_ wants you sadly, she has learned all -her Lesson. Then out came the little one: So _Madge!_ say she; so -_Sally!_ answered the other, have you learned your Lesson? Yes, -that's what I have, replied the little one in the Country Manner; and -immediately taking the Letters she set up these Syllables: - - ba be bi bo bu, ca ce ci co cu - da de di do du, fa fe fi so fu. - -and gave them their exact Sounds as she composed them; after which she -set up the following; - - ac ec ic oc uc, ad ed id od ud - af ef if of uf, ag eg ig og ug. - -And pronounced them likewise. She then sung the Cuzz's Chorus (which -may be found in the _Little Pretty Play Thing_, published by Mr. -NEWBERY) and to the same Tune to which it is there set. - -After this, Little _Two-Shoes_ taught her to spell Words of one -Syllable, and she soon set up Pear, Plumb. Top, Ball, Pin, Puss, Dog, -Hog, Fawn, Buck, Doe, Lamb, Sheep, Ram, Cow, Bull, Cock, Hen, and many -more. - -The next Place we came to was _Gaffer Cook's_ Cottage; there you -see it before you. - -[Illustration] - -Here a number of poor Children were met to learn; who all came round -Little _Margery_ at once; and, having pulled out her Letters, she -asked the little Boy next her, what he had for Dinner? Who answered, -_Bread_. (the poor Children in many Places live very hard) Well -then, says she, set the first Letter. He put up the Letter B, to which -the next added r, and the next e, the next a, the next d, and it stood -thus, _Bread_. - -And what had you _Polly Comb_ for your Dinner? _Apple-pye_ -answered the little Girl: Upon which the next in Turn set up a great -A, the two next a p each, and so on till the two Words Apple and Pye -were united and stood thus, _Apple-pye_. - -The next had _Potatoes_, the next _Beef and Turnip_ which -were spelt with many others, till the Game of Spelling was finished. -She then set them another Task, and we proceeded. - -The next Place we came to was Farmer _Thompson's_, where there -were a great many little ones waiting for her. - -So little Mrs. _Goody Two-Shoes_, says one of them, where have -you been so long? I have been teaching, says she, longer than I -intended, and am afraid I am come too soon for you now. No, but indeed -you are not, replied the other; for I have got my Lesson, and so has -_Sally Dawson_, and so has _Harry Wilson_, and so we have -all; and they capered about as if they were overjoyed to see her. Why -then, says she, you are all very good, and GOD Almighty will love you; -so let us begin our Lessons. They all huddled round her, and though at -the other Place they were employed about Words and Syllables, here we -had People of much greater Understanding who dealt only in Sentences. - -The Letters being brought upon the Table, one of the little ones set -up the following Sentence. - -_The Lord have Mercy upon me, and grant that I may be always good, -and say my Prayers, and love the Lord my God with all my Heart, with -all my Soul, and with all my Strength; and honour the King, and all -good Men in Authority under him._ - -Then the next took the Letters, and composed this Sentence. - -_Lord have Mercy upon me, and grant that I may love my Neighbour as -myself, and do unto all Men as I would have them do unto me, and tell -no Lies; but be honest and just in all my Dealings._ - -The third composed the following Sentence. - -_The Lord have Mercy upon me, and grant that I may honour my Father -and Mother, and love my Brothers and Sisters, Relations and Friends, -and all my Playmates, and every Body, and endeavour to make them -happy._ - -The fourth composed the following. - -_I pray_ GOD _to bless this whole Company, and all our Friends, -and all our Enemies._ - -To this last _Polly Sullen_ objected, and said, truly, she did -not know why she should pray for her Enemies? Not pray for your -Enemies, says Little _Margery_; yes, you must, you are no -Christian, if you don't forgive your Enemies, and do Good for Evil. -_Polly_ still pouted; upon which Little _Margery_ said, -though she was poor, and obliged to lie in a Barn, she would not keep -Company with such a naughty, proud, perverse Girl as _Polly_; and -was going away; however the Difference was made up, and she set them -to compose the following - - LESSONS - - For the CONDUCT of LIFE. - - LESSON I. - - He that will thrive, - Must rise by Five. - He that hath thriv'n, - May lie till Seven. - Truth may be blam'd, - But cannot be sham'd. - Tell me with whom you go; - And I'll tell what you do. - A Friend in your Need, - Is a Friend indeed. - They ne'er can be wise, - Who good Counsel despise. - - LESSON II. - - A wise Head makes a close Mouth. - Don't burn your Lips with another Man's Broth. - Wit is Folly, unless a wise Man hath the keeping of it. - Use soft Words and hard Arguments. - Honey catches more Flies than Vinegar. - To forget a Wrong is the best Revenge. - Patience is a Plaister for all Sores. - Where Pride goes, Shame will follow. - When Vice enters the Room, Vengeance is near the Door. - Industry is Fortune's right Hand, and Frugality her left. - Make much of Three-pence, or you ne'er will be worth a Groat. - - LESSON III. - - A Lie stands upon one Leg, but Truth upon two. - When a Man talks much, believe but half what he says. - Fair Words butter no Parsnips. - Bad Company poisons the Mind. - A covetous Man is never satisfied. - Abundance, like Want, ruins many. - Contentment is the best Fortune. - A contented Mind is a continual Feast. - - A LESSON in Religion. - - Love GOD, for he is good. - Fear GOD, for he is just. - Pray to GOD, for all good Things come from him. - Praise GOD, for great is his Mercy towards us, and wonderful - are all his Works. - Those who strive to be good, have GOD on their Side. - Those who have GOD for their Friend, shall want nothing. - Confess your Sins to GOD, and if you repent he will forgive you. - Remember that all you do, is done in the Presence of GOD. - The Time will come, my Friends, when we must give - Account to GOD, how we on Earth did live. - - A Moral LESSON. - - A good Boy will make a good Man. - Honour your Parents, and the World will honour you. - Love your Friends, and your Friends will love you. - He that swims in Sin, will sink in Sorrow. - Learn to live, as you would wish to die. - As you expect all Men should deal by you: - So deal by them, and give each Man his Due. - -As we were returning Home, we saw a Gentleman, who was very ill, -sitting under a shady Tree at the Corner of his Rookery. Though ill, -he began to joke with Little _Margery_, and said, laughingly, so, -_Goody Two-Shoes_, they tell me you are a cunning little Baggage; -pray, can you tell me what I shall do to get well? Yes, Sir, says she, -go to Bed when your Rooks do. You see they are going to Rest already: - -[Illustration] - -Do you so likewise, and get up with them in the morning; earn, as they -do, every Day what you eat, and eat and drink no more than you earn; -and you'll get Health and keep it. What should induce the Rooks to -frequent Gentlemens Houses only, but to tell them how to lead a -prudent Life? They never build over Cottages or Farm-houses, because -they see, that these People know how to live without their Admonition. - - _Thus Health and Wit you may improve, - Taught by the Tenants of the Grove._ - -The Gentleman laughing gave _Margery_ Sixpence; and told her she -was a sensible Hussey. - - - - - CHAP. VI. - - _How the whole Parish was frighted._ - - -Who does not know Lady _Ducklington_, or who does not know that -she was buried at this Parish Church? - -[Illustration] - -Well, I never saw so grand a Funeral in all my Life; but the Money -they squandered away, would have been better laid out in little Books -for Children, or in Meat, Drink, and Cloaths for the Poor. - -This if a fine Hearse indeed, and the nodding Plumes on the Horses -look very grand; but what End does that answer, otherwise than to -display the Pride of the Living, or the Vanity of the Dead. Fie upon -such Folly, say I, and Heaven grant that those who want more Sense may -have it. - -[Illustration] - -But all the Country round came to see the Burying, and it was late -before the Corpse was interred. After which, in the Night, or rather -about Four o'Clock in the Morning, the Bells were heard to jingle in -the Steeple, which frightened the People prodigiously, who all thought -it was Lady _Ducklington_'s Ghost dancing among the Bell-ropes. -The People flocked to _Will Dobbins_ the Clerk, and wanted him to -go and see what it was; but _William_ said, he was sure it was a -Ghost, and that he would not offer to open the Door. At length Mr. -_Long_ the Rector, hearing such an Uproar in the Village, went to -the Clerk, to know why he did not go into the Church; and see who was -there. I go, Sir, says _William_, why the Ghost would frighten me -out of my Wits.--Mrs. _Dobbins_ too cried, and laying hold of her -Husband said, he should not be eat up by the Ghost. A Ghost, you -Blockheads, says Mr. _Long_ in a Pet, did either of you ever see -a Ghost, or know any Body that did? Yes, says the Clerk, my Father did -once in the Shape of a Windmill, and it walked all round the Church in -a white Sheet, with Jack Boots on, and had a Gun by its Side instead -of a Sword. A fine Picture of a Ghost truly, says Mr. _Long_, -give me the Key of the Church, you Monkey; for I tell you there is no -such Thing now, whatever may have been formerly.--Then taking the Key, -he went to the Church, all the people following him. As soon as he had -opened the Door, what Sort of a Ghost do ye think appeared? Why Little -_Two-Shoes_, who being weary, had fallen asleep in one of the -Pews during the Funeral Service, and was shut in all Night. She -immediately asked Mr. _Long_'s Pardon for the Trouble she had -given him, told him, she had been locked into the Church, and said, -she should not have rung the Bells, but that she was very cold, and -hearing Farmer _Boult_'s Man go whistling by with his Horses, she -was in Hopes he would have went to the Clerk for the Key to let her -out. - -[Illustration] - - - - - CHAP. VII. - - _Containing an Account of all the Spirits, - or Ghosts, she saw in the Church._ - - -The People were ashamed to ask Little _Madge_ any Questions -before Mr. _Long_, but as soon as he was gone, they all got round -her to satisfy their Curiousity, and desired she would give them a -particular Account of all that she had heard and seen. - - Her TALE. - -I went to the Church, said she, as most of you did last Night, to see -the Burying, and being very weary, I sate me down in Mr. -_Jones_'s Pew, and fell fast asleep. At Eleven of the Clock I -awoke; which I believe was in some measure occasioned by the Clock's -striking, for I heard it. I started up, and could not at first tell -where I was; but after some Time I recollected the Funeral, and soon -found that I was shut in the Church. It was dismal dark, and I could -see nothing; but while I was standing in the Pew, something jumped up -upon me behind, and laid, as I thought, its Hands over my -Shoulders.--I own, I was a little afraid at first; however, I -considered that I had always been constant at Prayers and at Church, -and that I had done nobody any Harm, but had endeavoured to do what -Good I could; and then, thought I, what have I to fear? yet I kneeled -down to say my Prayers. As soon as I was on my Knees something very -cold, as cold as Marble, ay, as cold as Ice, touched my Neck, which -made me start; however, I continued my Prayers, and having begged -Protection from Almighty GOD, I found my Spirits come, and I was -sensible that I had nothing to fear; for GOD Almighty protects not -only all those who are good, but also all those who endeavour to be -good.--Nothing can withstand the Power, and exceed the Goodness of GOD -Almighty. Armed with the Confidence of his Protection, I walked down -the Church Isle, when I heard something, pit pat, pit pat, pit pat, -come after me, and something touched my Hand, which seemed as cold as -a Marble Monument. I could not think what this was, yet I knew it -could not hurt me, and therefore I made myself easy, but being very -cold, and the Church being paved with Stone, which was very damp, I -felt my Way as well as I could to the Pulpit, in doing which something -brushed by me, and almost threw me down. However I was not frightened, -for I knew, that GOD Almighty would suffer nothing to hurt me. - -At last, I found out the Pulpit, and having shut too the Door, I laid -me down on the Mat and Cushion to sleep; when something thrust and -pulled the Door, as I thought for Admittance, which prevented my going -to sleep. At last it cries, _Bow, wow, wow_; and I concluded it -must be Mr. _Saunderson_'s Dog, which had followed me from their -House to Church, so I opened the Door, and called _Snip, Snip_, -and the Dog jumped up upon me immediately. After this _Snip_ and -I lay down together, and had a most comfortable Nap; for when I awoke -again it was almost light. I then walked up and down all the Isles of -the Church to keep myself warm; and though I went into the Vault, and -trod on Lady _Ducklington's_ Coffin, I saw no Ghost, and I -believe it was owing to the Reason Mr. _Long_ has given you, -namely, that there is no such Thing to be seen. As to my Part, I would -as soon lie all Night in the Church as in any other Place; and I am -sure that any little Boy or Girl, who is good, and loves GOD Almighty, -and keeps his Commandments, may as safely lie in the Church, or the -Church-yard, as any where else, if they take Care not to get Cold; for -I am sure there are no Ghosts, either to hurt, or to frighten them; -though any one possessed of Fear might have taken Neighbour -_Saunderson_'s Dog with his cold Nose for a Ghost; and if they -had not been undeceived, as I was, would never have thought otherwise. -All the Company acknowledged the Justness of the Observation, and -thanked Little _Two-Shoes_ for her Advice. - - REFLECTION. - -After this, my dear Children, I hope you will not believe any foolish -Stories that ignorant, weak, or designing People may tell you about -_Ghosts_; for the Tales of _Ghosts_, _Witches_, and _Fairies_, are the -Frolicks of a distempered Brain. No wise Man ever saw either of them. -Little _Margery_ you see was not afraid; no, she had _good Sense_, -and a _good Conscience_, which is a Cure for all these imaginary -Evils. - - - - - CHAP. VIII. - - _Of something which happened to Little_ Two-Shoes_ - in a Barn, more dreadful than the Ghost in the Church; - and how she returned Good for Evil to her Enemy Sir_ Timothy. - - -Some Days after this a more dreadful Accident befel Little _Madge_. -She happened to be coming late from teaching, when it rained, -thundered, and lightened, and therefore she took Shelter in a Farmer's -Barn at a Distance from the Village. Soon after, the Tempest drove in -four Thieves, who, not seeing such a little creep-mouse Girl as -_Two-Shoes_, lay down on the Hay next to her, and began to talk over -their Exploits, and to settle Plans for future Robberies. Little -_Margery_ on hearing them, covered herself with Straw. To be sure she -was sadly frighted, but her good Sense taught her, that the only -Security she had was in keeping herself concealed; therefore she laid -very still, and breathed very softly. About Four o'Clock these wicked -People came to a Resolution to break both Sir _William Dove's_ House, -and Sir _Timothy Gripe's_, and by Force of Arms to carry off all their -Money, Plate and Jewels; but as it was thought then too late, they -agreed to defer it till the next Night. After laying this Scheme they -all set out upon their Pranks, which greatly rejoiced _Margery_, as it -would any other little Girl in her Situation. Early in the Morning she -went to Sir _William_, and told him the whole of their Conversation. -Upon which, he asked her Name, gave her Something, and bid her call at -his House the Day following. She also went to Sir _Timothy_ -notwithstanding standing he had used her so ill; for she knew it was -her Duty to _do Good for Evil_. As soon as he was informed who she -was, he took no Notice of her; upon which she desired to speak to Lady -_Gripe_; and having informed her Ladyship of the Affair, she went her -Way. This Lady had more Sense than her Husband, which indeed is not a -singular Case; for instead of despising Little _Margery_ and her -Information, she privately set People to guard the House. The Robbers -divided themselves, and went about the Time mentioned to both Houses, -and were surprized by the Guards, and taken. Upon examining these -Wretches, one of which turned Evidence, both Sir _William_ and Sir -_Timothy_ found that they owed their Lives to the Discovery made by -Little _Margery_, and the first took great Notice of her, and would no -longer let her lie in a Barn; but Sir _Timothy_ only said, that he was -ashamed to owe his Life to the Daughter of one who was his Enemy; so -true it is, _that a proud Man seldom forgives those he has injured_. - -[Illustration] - - - - - CHAP. IX. - - _How Little_ Margery _was made - Principal of a Country College._ - - -Mrs. _Williams_, of whom I have given a particular Account in my _New -Year's Gift_, and who kept a College for instructing little Gentlemen -and Ladies in the Science of A, B, C, was at this Time very old and -infirm, and wanted to decline that important Trust. This being told to -Sir _William Dove_, who lived in the Parish, he sent for Mrs. -_Williams_, and desired she would examine Little _Two-Shoes_, and see -whether she was qualified for the Office.----This was done, and Mrs. -_Williams_ made the following Report in her Favour, namely, _that -Little_ Margery _was the best Scholar, and had the best Head, and the -best Heart of any one she had examined_. All the Country had a great -Opinion of Mrs. _Williams_, and this Character gave them also a great -Opinion of Mrs. _Margery_; for so we must now call her. - -This Mrs. _Margery_ thought the happiest Period of her Life; but -more Happiness was in Store for her. GOD Almighty heaps up Blessings -for all those who love him, and though for a Time he may suffer them -to be poor and distressed, and hide his good Purposes from human -Sight, yet in the End they are generally crowned with Happiness -here, and no one can doubt of their being so hereafter. - -On this Occasion the following Hymn, or rather a Translation of the -twenty-third Psalm, is said to have been written, and was soon after -published in the _Spectator_. - - I. - - The Lord my Pasture shall prepare, - And feed me with a Shepherd's Care: - His Presence shall my Wants supply, - And guard me with a watchful Eye; - My Noon-day Walks he shall attend, - And all my Midnight Hours defend. - - II. - - When in the sultry Glebe I faint, - Or on the thirsty Mountain pant; - To fertile Vales and dewy Meads, - My weary wand'ring Steps he leads; - Where peaceful Rivers, soft and slow, - Amid the verdant Landskip flow. - - III. - - Tho' in the Paths of Death I tread, - With gloomy Horrors overspread, - My stedfast Heart shall fear no ill, - For thou, O Lord, art with me still; - Thy friendly Crook shall give me Aid, - And guide me thro' the dreadful Shade. - - IV. - - Tho' in a bare and rugged Way, - Thro' devious lonely Wilds I stray, - Thy Bounty shall my Pains beguile: - The barren Wilderness shall smile, - With sudden Greens & herbage crown'd, - And Streams shall murmur all around. - -Here ends the History of Little _Two Shoes_. Those who would know -how she behaved after she came to be Mrs. _Margery Two-Shoes_ -must read the Second Part of this Work, in which an Account of the -Remainder of her Life, her Marriage, and Death are set forth at large, -according to Act of Parliament. - - - - - ==================== - - - The Renowned - - HISTORY - - OF - - Mrs. MARGERY TWO-SHOES. - - - -------------------- - PART II. - -------------------- - - - INTRODUCTION. - - -In the first Part of this Work, the young Student has read, and I hope -with Pleasure and Improvement, the History of this Lady, while she was -known and distinguished by the Name of _Little Two-Shoes_; we are -now come to a Period of her Life when that Name was discarded, and a -more eminent one bestowed upon her, I mean I mean that of Mrs. -_Margery Two-Shoes_: For as she was now President of the A, B, C -College, it became necessary to exalt her in Title as well as in -Place. - - -No sooner was she settled in this Office, but she laid every possible -Scheme to promote the Welfare and Happiness of all her Neighbours, and -especially of the Little Ones, in whom she took great Delight, and all -those whose Parents could not afford to pay for their Education, she -taught for nothing, but the Pleasure she had in their Company, for you -are to observe, that they were very good, or were soon made so by her -good Management. - - - - - CHAP. I. - - _Of her School, her Ushers, or Assistants, - and her Manner of Teaching._ - - -We have already informed the Reader, that the School where she taught, -was that which was before kept by Mrs. _Williams_, whose -Character you may find in my _New Year's Gift_. The Room was -large, and as she knew, that Nature intended Children should be always -in Action, she placed her different Letters, or Alphabets, all round -the School, so that every one was obliged to get up to fetch a Letter, -or to spell a Word, when it came to their Turn; which not only kept -them in Health, but fixed the Letters and Points firmly in their -Minds. - -She had the following Assistants or Ushers to help her, and I will -tell you how she came by them. Mrs. _Margery_, you must know, was -very humane and compassionate; and her Tenderness extended not only to -all Mankind, but even to all Animals that were not noxious; as your's -ought to do, if you would be happy here, and go to Heaven hereafter. -These are GOD Almighty's Creatures as well as we. He made both them -and us; and for wise Purposes, best known to himself, placed them in -this World to live among us; so that they are our fellow Tenants of -the Globe. How then can People dare to torture and wantonly destroy -GOD Almighty's Creatures? They as well as you are capable of feeling -Pain, and of receiving Pleasure, and how can you, who want to be made -happy yourself, delight in making your fellow Creatures miserable? Do -you think the poor Birds, whose Nest and young ones that wicked Boy -_Dick Wilson_ ran away with Yesterday, do not feel as much Pain, -as your Father and Mother would have felt, had any one pulled down -their House and ran away with you? To be sure they do. Mrs. -_Two-Shoes_ used to speak of those Things, and of naughty Boys -throwing at Cocks, torturing Flies, and whipping Horses and Dogs, with -Tears in her Eyes, and would never suffer any one to come to her -School who did so. - -One Day, as she was going through the next Village, she met with some -wicked Boys who had got a young Raven, which they were going to throw -at, she wanted to get the poor Creature out of their cruel Hands, and -therefore gave them a Penny for him, and brought him home. She called -his Name _Ralph_, and a fine Bird he is. Do look at him and remember -what _Solomon_ says, _The Eye that despiseth his Father, and regardeth -not the Distress of his Mother, the Ravens of the Valley shall peck it -out, and the young Eagles eat it._ Now this Bird she taught to speak, -to spell and to read; and as he was particularly fond of playing with -the large Letters, the Children used to call this _Ralph_'a Alphabet. - - A B C D E F G H I J K L M - N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z. - -He always sat at her Elbow, as you see in the first Picture, and when -any of the Children were wrong, she used to call out, _Put them -right Ralph_, and a fine bird he is. Do look at him. - -[Illustration] - -Some Days after she had met with the Raven, as she was walking in the -Fields, she saw some naughty Boys, who had taken a Pidgeon, and tied a -String to its Leg, in order to let it fly, and draw it back again when -they pleased; and by this Means they tortured the poor Animal with the -Hopes of Liberty and repeated Disappointment. This Pidgeon she also -bought, and taught him how to spell and read, though not to talk, and -he performed all those extraordinary Things which are recorded of the -famous Bird, that was some Time since advertised in the -_Haymarket_, and visited by most of the great People in the -Kingdom. This Pidgeon was a very pretty Fellow, and she called him -_Tom_. See here he is. - -[Illustration] - -And as the Raven _Ralph_ was fond of the large Letters, -_Tom_ the Pidgeon took Care of the small ones, of which he -composed this Alphabet. - - a b c d e f g h i j k l m - n o p q r s t u v w x y z. - -The Neighbours knowing that Mrs. _Two Shoes_ was very good, as to -be sure nobody was better, made her a Present of a little Sky-lark, -and a fine Bird he is. - -[Illustration] - -Now as many People, even at that Time had learned to lie in Bed long -in the Morning, she thought the Lark might be of Use to her and her -Pupils, and tell them when to get up. - -_For be that is fond of his Bed, and lays 'till Noon, lives but half -his Days, the rest being lost in Sleep, which is a Kind of Death_. - -Some Time after this a poor Lamb had lost its Dam, and the Farmer -being about to kill it, she bought it of him, and brought it home with -her to play with the Children, and teach them when to go to Bed; for -it was a Rule with the wise Men of that Age (and a very good one, let -me tell you) to - - _Rise with the Lark, and lie down with the Lamb._ - -This Lamb she called _Will_, and a pretty Fellow he is; do, look -at him. - -[Illustration] - -No sooner was _Tippy_ the Lark and _Will_ the Ba-lamb -brought into the School, but that sensible Rogue _Ralph_, the -Raven, composed the following Verse, which every little good Boy and -Girl should get by Heart. - - _Early to Bed, and early to rise; - Is the Way to be healthy, and wealthy, and wise_. - -A sly Rogue; but it is true enough; for those who do not go to Bed -early cannot rise early; and those who do not rise early cannot do -much Business. Pray, let this be told at the Court, and to People who -have Routs and Rackets. - -Soon after this, a Present was made to Mrs. _Margery_ of little -Dog _Jumper_, and a pretty Dog he is. Pray, look at him. - -[Illustration] - -_Jumper, Jumper, Jumper!_ He is always in a good Humour, and -playing and jumping about, and therefore he was called _Jumper_. -The Place assigned for _Jumper_ was that of keeping the Door, so -that he may be called the Porter of the College, for he would let -nobody go out, or any one come in, without the Leave of his Mistress. -See how he sits, a saucy Rogue. - -_Billy_ the Ba-lamb was a chearful Fellow, and all the Children -were fond of him, wherefore Mrs. _Two-Shoes_ made it a Rule, that -those who behaved best should have _Will_ home with them at Night -to carry their Satchel or Basket at his Back, and bring it in the -Morning. See what a fine Fellow he is, and how he trudges along. - - - - - CHAP. II. - - _A Scene of Distress; in the School_. - - -It happened one Day, when Mrs. _Two-Shoes_ was diverting the -Children after Dinner, as she usually did with some innocent Games, or -entertaining and instructive Stories, that a Man arrived with the -melancholy News of _Sally Jones's_ Father being thrown from his -Horse, and thought past all Recovery; nay, the Messenger said, that he -was seemingly dying, when he came away. Poor _Sally_ was greatly -distressed, as indeed were all the School, for she dearly loved her -Father, and Mrs. _Two-Shoes_, and all the Children dearly loved -her. It is generally said, that we never know the real Value of our -Parents or Friends till we have lost them; but poor _Sally_ felt -this by Affection, and her Mistress knew it by Experience. All the -School were in Tears, and the Messenger was obliged to return; but -before he went, Mrs. _Two-Shoes_, unknown to the Children, -ordered _Tom_ Pidgeon to go home with the Man, and bring a Letter -to inform her how Mr. _Jones_ did. They set out together, and the -Pidgeon rode on the Man's Head, (as you see here) for the Man was able -to carry the Pidgeon, though the Pidgeon was not able to carry the -Man, if he had, they would have been there much sooner, for _Tom_ -Pidgeon was _very good_, and never staid on an Errand. - -[Illustration] - -Soon after the Man was gone the Pidgeon was lost, and the Concern the -Children were under for Mr. _Jones_ and little _Sally_ was -in some Measure diverted, and Part of their Attention turned after -_Tom_, who was a great Favourite, and consequently much bewailed. -Mrs. _Margery_, who knew the great Use and Necessity of teaching -Children to submit chearfully to the Will of Providence, bid them wipe -away their Tears, and then kissing _Sally_, you must be a good -Girl, says she, and depend upon GOD Almighty for his Blessing and -Protection; for _he is a Father to the Fatherless, and defendeth all -those who put their Trust in him_. She then told them a Story, -which I shall relate in as few Words as possible. - - - _The History of Mr._ Lovewell, _Father - to Lady_ Lucy. - -Mr. _Lovewell_ was born at _Bath_, and apprenticed to a -laborious Trade in _London_, which being too hard for him, he -parted with his Master by Consent, and hired himself as a common -Servant to a Merchant in the City. Here he spent his leisure Hours not -as Servants too frequently do, in Drinking and Schemes of Pleasure, -but in improving his Mind; and among other Acquirements, he made -himself a complete Master of Accompts. His Sobriety, Honesty, and the -Regard he paid to his Master's Interest, greatly recommended him in -the whole Family, and he had several Offices of Trust committed to his -Charge, in which he acquitted himself so well, that the Merchant -removed him from the Stable into the Counting-house. - -Here he soon made himself Master of the Business, and became so useful -to the Merchant, that in regard to his faithful Services, and the -Affection he had for him, he married him to his own Niece, a prudent -agreeable young Lady; and gave him a Share in the Business. See what -Honesty and Industry will do for us. Half the great Men in -_London_, I am told, have made themselves by this Means, and who -would but be honest and industrious, when it is so much our Interest -and our Duty. - -After some Years the Merchant died, and left Mr. _Lovewell_ -possessed of many fine Ships at Sea, and much Money, and he was happy -in a Wife, who had brought him a Son and two Daughters, all dutiful -and obedient. The Treasures and good Things, however, of this Life are -so uncertain, that a Man can never be happy, unless he lays the -Foundation for it in his own Mind. So true is that Copy in our Writing -Books, which tells us, that _a contented Mind is a continual -Feast_. - -After some Years successful Trade, he thought his Circumstances -sufficient to insure his own Ships, or, in other Words, to send his -Ships and Goods to Sea without being insured by others, as is -customary among Merchants; when, unfortunately for him, four of them -richly laden were lost at Sea. This he supported with becoming -Resolution; but the next Mail brought him Advice, that nine others -were taken by the _French_, with whom we were then at War; and -this, together with the Failure of three foreign Merchants whom he had -trusted, compleated his Ruin. He was then obliged to call his -Creditors together, who took his Effects, and being angry with him for -the imprudent Step of not insuring his Ships, left him destitute of -all Subsistence. Nor did the Flatterers of his Fortune, those who had -lived by his Bounty when in his Prosperity, pay the least Regard -either to him or his Family. So true is another Copy, that you will -find in your Writing Book, which says, _Misfortune tries our -Friends_. All these Slights of his pretended Friends, and the ill -Usage of his Creditors, both he and his Family bore with Christian -Fortitude; but other Calamities fell upon him, which he felt more -sensibly. - -In his Distress, one of his Relations, who lived at _Florence_, -offered to take his Son; and another, who lived at _Barbadoes_, -sent for one of his Daughters. The Ship which his Son sailed in was -cast away, and all the Crew supposed to be lost; and the Ship, in -which his Daughter went a Passenger, was taken by Pyrates, and one -Post brought the miserable Father an Account of the Loss of his two -Children. This was the severest Stroke of all: It made him compleatly -wretched, and he knew it must have a dreadful Effect on his Wife and -Daughter; he therefore endeavoured to conceal it from them. But the -perpetual Anxiety he was in, together with the Loss of his Appetite -and Want of Rest, soon alarmed his Wife. She found something was -labouring in his Breast, which was concealed from her; and one Night -being disturbed in a Dream, with what was ever in his Thoughts, and -calling out upon his dear Children; she awoke him, and insisted upon -knowing the Cause of his Inquietude. _Nothing, my Dear, nothing,_ -says he, _The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be -the Name of the Lord._ This was sufficient to alarm the poor Woman; -she lay till his Spirits were composed, and as she thought asleep, -then stealing out of Bed, got the Keys and opened his Bureau, where -she found the fatal Account. In the Height of her Distractions, she -flew to her Daughter's Room, and waking her with her Shrieks, put the -Letters into her Hands. The young Lady, unable to support this Load of -Misery, fell into a Fit, from which it was thought she never could -have been recovered. However, at last she revived; but the Shock was -so great, that it entirely deprived her of her Speech. - -Thus loaded with Misery, and unable to bear the Slights and Disdain of -those who had formerly professed themselves Friends, this unhappy Family -retired into a Country, where they were unknown, in order to hide -themselves from the World; when, to support their Independency, the -Father laboured as well as he could at Husbandry, and the Mother and -Daughter sometimes got spinning and knitting Work, to help to furnish -the Means of Subsistence; which however was so precarious and uncertain, -that they often, for many Weeks together, lived on nothing but Cabbage -and Bread boiled in Water. But God never forsaketh the Righteous, nor -suffereth those to perish who put their Trust in him. At this Time a -Lady, who was just come to England, sent to take a pleasant Seat ready -furnished in that Neighbourhood, and the Person who was employed for the -Purpose, was ordered to deliver a Bank Note of an hundred Pounds to Mr. -_Lovewell_, another hundred to his Wife, and fifty to the Daughter, -desiring them to take Possession of the House, and get it well aired -against she came down, which would be in two or three Days at most. -This, to People who were almost starving, was a sweet and seasonable -Relief, and they were all sollicitous to know their Benefactress, but of -that the Messenger himself was too ignorant to inform them. However, she -came down sooner than was expected, and with Tears embraced them again -and again: After which she told the Father and Mother she had heard from -their Daughter, who was her Acquaintance, and that she was well and on -her Return to England. This was the agreeable Subject of their -Conversation till after Dinner, when drinking their Healths, she again -with Tears saluted them, and falling upon her Knees asked their -Blessings. - -[Illustration] - -Tis impossible to express the mutual Joy which this occasioned. Their -Conversation was made up of the most endearing Expressions, -intermingled with Tears and Caresses. Their Torrent of Joy, however, -was for a Moment interrupted, by a Chariot which stopped at the Gate, -and which brought as they thought a very unseasonable Visitor, and -therefore she sent to be excused from seeing Company. - -[Illustration] - -But this had no Effect, for a Gentleman richly dressed jumped out of -the Chariot, and pursuing the Servant into the Parlour saluted them -round, who were all astonished at his Behaviour. But when the Tears -trickled from his Cheeks, the Daughter, who had been some Years dumb, -immediately cried out, _my Brother! my Brother! my Brother!_ and -from that Instant recovered her Speech. The mutual Joy which this -occasioned, is better felt than expressed. Those who have proper -Sentiments of Humanity, Gratitude, and filial Piety will rejoice at -the Event, and those who have a proper Idea of the Goodness of God, -and his gracious Providence, will from this, as well as other -Instances of his Goodness and Mercy, glorify his holy Name, and -magnify his Wisdom and Power, who is a Shield to the Righteous, and -defendeth all those who put their Trust in him. - -As you, my dear Children, may be sollicitous to know how this happy -Event was brought about, I must inform you, that Mr. _Lovewell_'s Son, -when the Ship foundered, had with some others got into the long Boat, -and was taken up by a Ship at Sea, and carried to the East Indies, -where in a little Time he made a large Fortune; and the Pirates who -took his Daughter, attempted to rob her of her Chastity; but finding -her Inflexible, and determined to die rather than to submit, some of -them behaved to her in a very cruel Manner; but others, who had more -Honour and Generosity, became her Defenders; upon which a Quarrel -arose between them, and the Captain, who was the worst of the Gang, -being killed, the rest of the Crew carried the Ship into a Port of the -_Manilla_ Islands, belonging to the _Spaniards_; where, when her Story -was known, she was treated with great Respect, and courted by a young -Gentleman, who was taken ill of a Fever, and died before the Marriage -was agreed on, but left her his whole Fortune. - -You see, my dear _Sally_, how wonderfully these People were -preserved, and made happy after such extreme Distress; we are -therefore never to despair, even under the greatest Misfortunes, for -GOD Almighty is All-powerful and can deliver us at any Time. Remember -_Job_, but I think you have not read so far, take the Bible, -_Billy Jones_, and read the History of that good and patient Man. -At this Instant something was heard to slap at the Window, _Wow, -wow, wow_, says Jumper, and attempted to leap up and open the Door, -at which the Children were surprized; but Mrs. _Margery_ knowing -what it was, opened the Casement, as _Noah_ did the Window of the -Ark, and drew in _Tom_ Pidgeon with a Letter, and see here he is. - -[Illustration] - -As soon as he was placed on the Table, he walked up to little -_Sally_, and dropping the Letter, cried, _Co, Co, Coo_, as -much as to say, _there read it_. Now this poor Pidgeon had -travelled fifty Miles in about an Hour, to bring _Sally_ this -Letter, and who would destroy such pretty Creatures.--But let us read -the Letter. - -_My dear_ Sally, - -GOD Almighty has been very merciful, and restored your Pappa to us -again, who is now so well as to be able to sit up. I hear you are a -good Girl, my Dear, and I hope you will never forget to praise the -Lord for this his great Goodness and Mercy to us--What a sad Thing it -would have been if your Father had died, and left both you and me, and -little _Tommy_ in Distress, and without a Friend: Your Father -sends his Blessing with mine--Be good, my dear Child, and God Almighty -will also bless you, whose Blessing is above all Things. - -_I am, my Dear Sally_, - -_Your ever affectionate Mother,_ - -MARTHA JONES. - - - - - CHAP. III. - - _Of the amazing Sagacity and Instincts - of a little Dog_. - - -Soon after this, a dreadful Accident happened in the School. It was on -a _Thursday_ Morning, I very well remember, when the Children -having learned their Lessons soon, she had given them Leave to play, -and they were all running about the School, and diverting themselves -with the Birds and the Lamb; at this Time the Dog, all of a sudden, -laid hold of his Mistress's Apron, and endeavoured to pull her out of -the School. She was at first surprized, however, she followed him to -see what he intended. No sooner had he led her into the Garden, but he -ran back, and pulled out one of the Children in the same manner; upon -which she ordered them all to leave the School immediately, and they -had not been out five Minutes, before the Top of the House fell in. -What a miraculous Deliverance was here! How gracious! How good was God -Almighty, to save all these Children from Destruction, and to make Use -of such an Instrument, as a little sagacious Animal to accomplish his -Divine Will. I should have observed, that as soon as they were all in -the Garden, the Dog came leaping round them to express his Joy, and -when the House was fallen, laid himself down quietly by his Mistress. - -Some of the Neighbours, who saw the School fall, and who were in great -Pain for _Margery_ and the little ones, soon spread the News -through the Village, and all the Parents, terrified for their -Children, came crowding in Abundance; they had, however, the -Satisfaction to find them all safe, and upon their Knees, with their -Mistress, giving God thanks for their happy Deliverance. - - ADVICE _from the_ MAN _in the_ MOON. - -_Jumper, Jumper, Jumper_, what a pretty Dog he is, and how -sensible? Had Mankind half the Sagacity of _Jumper_, they would -guard against Accidents of this Sort, by having a public Survey, -occasionally made of all the Houses in every Parish (especially of -those, which are old and decayed) and not suffer them to remain in a -crazy State, 'till they fall down on the Heads of the poor -Inhabitants, and crush them to Death. Why, it was but Yesterday, that -a whole House fell down in _Grace-church-street_, and another in -_Queen's-street_, and an hundred more are to tumble, before this -Time twelve Months; so Friends, take Care of yourselves, and tell the -Legislature, they ought to take Care for you. How can you be so -careless? Most of your Evils arise from Carelesness and Extravagance, -and yet you excuse yourselves, and lay the Fault upon Fortune. Fortune -is a Fool, and you are a Blockhead, if you put it in her Power to play -Tricks with you. - -_Yours_, - -_The_ MAN _in the_ MOON. - -You are not to wonder, my dear Reader, that this little Dog should -have more Sense than you, or your Father, or your Grandfather. - -Though God Almighty has made Man the Lord of the Creation, and endowed -him with Reason, yet in many Respects, he has been altogether as -bountiful to other Creatures of his forming. Some of the Senses of -other Animals are more acute than ours, as we find by daily -Experience. You know this little Bird, _sweet Jug, Jug, Jug_, -'tis a Nightingale. This little Creature, after she has entertained us -with her Songs all the Spring, and bred up her little ones, flies into -a foreign Country, and finds her Way over the Great Sea, without any -of the Instruments and Helps which Men are obliged to make Use of for -that Purpose. Was you as wise as the Nightingale, you might make all -the Sailors happy, and have twenty thousand Pounds for teaching them -the Longitude. - -[Illustration] - -You would not think _Ralph_ the Raven half so wise and so good as he -is, though you see him here reading his book. Yet when the Prophet -_Elijah_, was obliged to fly from _Ahab_ King of _Israel_, and hide -himself in a Cave, the Ravens, at the Command of God Almighty, fed him -every Day, and preserved his Life. - -_And the Word of the Lord came unto _Elijah_, saying, Hide -thyself by the Brook _Cherith_, that is before _Jordan_, and -I have commanded the Ravens to feed thee there. And the Ravens brought -him Bread and Flesh in the Morning, and Bread and Flesh in the -Evening, and he drank of the Brook,_ Kings, B.I.C. 17. - -And the pretty Pidgeon when the World was drowned, and he was confined -with _Noah_ in the Ark, was sent forth by him to see whether the -Waters were abated, _And he sent forth a Dove from him, to see if -the Waters were abated from off the Face of the Ground. And the Dove -came in to him in the Evening, and lo, in her Mouth was an Olive Leaf -plucked off: So_ Noah _knew that the Waters were abated from off -the Earth._ Gen. viii. 8. 11. - -As these, and other Animals, are so sensible and kind to us, we ought -to be tender and good to them, and not beat them about, and kill them, -and take away their young ones, as many wicked Boys do. Does not the -Horse and the Ass carry you and your burthens; don't the Ox plough -your Ground, the Cow give you Milk, the Sheep cloath your Back, the -Dog watch your House, the Goose find you in Quills to write with, the -Hen bring Eggs for your Custards and Puddings, and the Cock call you -up in the Morning, when you are lazy, and like to hurt yourselves by -laying too long in Bed? If so, how can you be so cruel to them, and -abuse God Almighty's good Creatures? Go, naughty Boy, go; be sorry for -what you have done, and do so no more, that God Almighty may forgive -you. _Amen_, say I, again and again. God will bless you, but not -unless you are merciful and good. - -The downfal of the School, was a great Misfortune to Mrs. -_Margery_; for she not only lost all her Books, but was destitute -of a Place to teach in; but Sir William _Dove_, being informed of -this, ordered the House to be built at his own Expence, and 'till that -could be done, Farmer _Grove_ was so kind, as to let her have his -large Hall to teach in. - -The House built by Sir _William_, had a Statue erected over the -Door of a Boy sliding on the Ice, and under it were these Lines, -written by Mrs. _Two-Shoes_, and engraved at her Expence. - -[Illustration] - - On SIN. A SIMILE. - - As a poor Urchin on the Ice, - When he has tumbl'd once or twice, - With cautious Step, and trembling goes, - The drop-stile Pendant on his Nose, - And trudges on to seek the Shore, - Resolv'd to trust the Ice no more: - But meeting with a daring Mate, - Who often us'd to slide and scate, - Again is into Danger led, - And falls again, and breaks his head. - So Youth when first they're drawn to sin, - And see the Danger they are in, - Would gladly quit the thorney Way, - And think it is unsafe to stay; - But meeting with their wicked Train, - Return with them to sin again: - With them the Paths of Vice explore; - With them are ruin'd ever more. - - - - - CHAP. IV. - - _What happened at Farmer Grove's; - and how she gratified him for the Use - of his Room_. - - -While at Mr. _Grove's_, which was in the Heart of the Village, -she not only taught the Children in the Day Time, but the Farmer's -Servants, and all the Neighbours, to read and write in the Evening; -and it was a constant Practice before they went away, to make them all -go to Prayers, and sing Psalms. By this Means, the People grew -extremely regular, his Servants were always at Home, instead of being -at the Ale-house, and he had more Work done than ever. This gave not -only Mr. _Grove_, but all the Neighbours, an high Opinion of her -good Sense and prudent Behaviour: And she was so much esteemed, that -most of the Differences in the Parish were left to her Decision; and -if a Man and Wife quarrelled (which sometimes happened in that Part of -the Kingdom) both Parties certainly came to her for Advice. Every Body -knows, that _Martha Wilson_ was a passionate scolding Jade, and -that _John_ her husband, was a surly ill-tempered Fellow. These -were one Day brought by the Neighbours for _Margery_ to talk to -them, when they fairly quarrelled before her, and were going to Blows; -but she stepping between them, thus addressed the Husband; -_John_, says she, you are a Man, and ought to have more Sense -than to fly in a Passion, at every Word that is said amiss by your -Wife; and _Martha_, says she, you ought to know your Duty better, -than to say any Thing to aggravate your Husband's Resentment. These -frequent Quarrels, arise from the Indulgence of your violent Passions; -for I know, you both love one another, notwithstanding what has passed -between you. Now, pray tell me _John_, and tell me _Martha_, -when you have had a Quarrel the over Night, are you not both sorry for -it the next Day? They both declared that they were: Why then, says -she, I'll tell you how to prevent this for the future, if you will -both promise to take my Advice. They both promised her. You know, says -she, that a small Spark will set Fire to Tinder, and that Tinder -properly placed will fire a House; an angry Word is with you as that -Spark, for you are both as touchy as Tinder, and very often make your -own House too hot to hold you. To prevent this, therefore, and to live -happily for the future, you must solemnly agree, that if one speaks an -angry Word, the other will not answer, 'till he or she has distinctly -called over all the Letters in the Alphabet, and the other not reply, -'till he has told twenty; by this Means your Passions will be stifled, -and Reason will have Time to take the Rule. - -This is the best Recipe that was ever given for a married Couple to -live in Peace: Though _John_ and his Wife frequently attempted to -quarrel afterwards, they never could get their Passions to any -considerable Height, for there was something so droll in thus carrying -on the Dispute, that before they got to the End of the Argument, they -saw the Absurdity of it, laughed, kissed, and were Friends. - -Just as Mrs. _Margery_ had settled this Difference between -_John_ and his Wife, the Children (who had been sent out to play, -while that Business was transacting) returned some in Tears, and -others very disconsolate, for the Loss of a little Dormouse they were -very fond of, and which was just dead. Mrs. _Margery_, who had -the Art of moralizing and drawing Instructions from every Accident, -took this Opportunity of reading them a Lecture on the Uncertainty of -Life, and the Necessity of being always prepared for Death. You should -get up in the Morning, says she, and to conduct yourselves, as if that -Day was to be your last, and lie down at Night, as if you never -expected to see this World any more. This may be done, says she, -without abating of your Chearfulness, for you are not to consider -Death as an Evil, but as a Convenience, as an useful Pilot, who is to -convey you to a Place of greater Happiness: Therefore, play my dear -Children, and be merry; but be innocent and good. The good Man sets -Death at Defiance, for his Darts are only dreadful to the Wicked. - -After this, she permitted the Children to bury the little Dormouse, -and desired one of them to write his Epitaph, and here it is. - -_Epitaph on a_ DORMOUSE, _really - written by a little_ BOY. - - I. - - In Paper Case, - Hard by this Place, -Dead a poor Dormouse lies; - And soon or late, - Summon'd by Fate, -Each Prince, each Monarch dies. - - II. - - Ye Sons of Verse, - While I rehearse, -Attend instructive Rhyme; - No Sins had _Dor_, - To answer for, -Repent of yours in Time. - - - - - CHAP. V. - - _The whole History of the Considering Cap, set forth - at large for the Benefit of all whom it may concern_. - - -[Illustration] - -The great Reputation Mrs. _Margery_ acquired by composing -Differences in Families, and especially, between Man and Wife, induced -her to cultivate that Part of her System of Morality and Economy, in -order to render it more extensively useful. For this Purpose, she -contrived what she called a Charm for the Passions; which was a -considering Cap, almost as large as a Grenadier's, but of three equal -Sides; on the first of which was written, I MAY BE WRONG; on the -second, IT IS FIFTY TO ONE BUT YOU ARE; and on the third, I'LL -CONSIDER OF IT. The other Parts on the out-side, were filled with odd -Characters, as unintelligible as the Writings of the old -_Egyptians_; but within Side there was a Direction for its Use, -of the utmost Consequence; for it strictly enjoined the Possessor to -put on the Cap, whenever he found his Passions begin to grow -turbulent, and not to deliver a Word whilst it was on, but with great -Coolness and Moderation. As this Cap was an universal Cure for -Wrong-headedness, and prevented numberless Disputes and Quarrels, it -greatly hurt the Trade of the poor Lawyers, but was of the utmost -Service to the rest of the Community. They were bought by Husbands and -Wives, who had themselves frequent Occasion for them, and sometimes -lent them to their Children: They were also purchased in large -Quantities by Masters and Servants; by young Folks, who were intent on -Matrimony, by Judges, Jurymen, and even Physicians and Divines; nay, -if we may believe History, the Legislators of the Land did not disdain -the Use of them; and we are told, that when any important Debate -arose, _Cap, was the Word_, and each House looked like a grand -Synod of _Egyptian_ Priests. Nor was this Cap of less Use to -Partners in Trade, for with these, as well as with Husband and Wife, -if one was out of Humour, the other threw him the Cap, and he was -obliged to put it on, and keep it till all was quiet. I myself saw -thirteen Caps worn at a Time in one Family, which could not have -subsisted an Hour without them; and I was particularly pleased at Sir -_Humphry Huffum's_, to hear a little Girl, when her Father was -out of Humour, ask her Mamma, _if she should reach down the Cap_? -These Caps, indeed, were of such Utility, that People of Sense never -went without them; and it was common in the Country, when a Booby made -his Appearance, and talked Nonsense, to say, _he had no Cap in his -Pocket_. - -[Illustration] - - _Advice from FRIAR BACON._ - -What was _Fortunatus_'s Wishing Cap, when compared to this? That -Cap, is said to have conveyed People instantly from one Place to -another; but, as the Change of Place does not change the Temper and -Disposition of the Mind, little Benefit can be expected from it; nor -indeed is much to be hoped from his famous Purse: That Purse, it is -said, was never empty, and such a Purse, may be sometimes convenient; -but as Money will not purchase Peace, it is not necessary for a Man to -encumber himself with a great deal of it. Peace and Happiness depend -so much upon the State of a Man's own Mind, and upon the Use of the -considering Cap, that it is generally his own Fault, if he is -miserable. One of these Caps will last a Man his whole Life, and is a -Discovery of much greater Importance to the Public than the -Philosopher's Stone. Remember what was said by my Brazen Head, _Time -is, Time was, Time is past_: Now the _Time is_, therefore buy -the Cap immediately, and make a proper Use of it, and be happy before -the _Time is past_. - -_Yours_ ROGER BACON. - - - - - CHAP. VI. - - _How Mrs._ MARGERY _was taken up for a Witch, - and what happened on that Occasion._ - - -And so it is true? And they have taken up Mrs. _Margery_ then, -and accused her of being a Witch, only because she was wiser than some -of her Neighbours! Mercy upon me! People stuff Children's Heads with -Stories of Ghosts, Faries, Witches, and such Nonsense when they are -young, and so they continue Fools all their Days. The whole World -ought to be made acquainted with her Case, and here it is at their -Service. - -_The Case of Mrs._ MARGERY. - -Mrs. _Margery_, as we have frequently observed, was always doing -Good, and thought she could never sufficiently gratify those who had -done any Thing to serve her. These generous Sentiments, naturally led -her to consult the Interest of Mr. _Grove_, and the rest of her -Neighbours; and as most of their Lands were Meadow, and they depended -much on their Hay, which had been for many Years greatly damaged by -wet Weather, she contrived an Instrument to direct them when to mow -their Grass with Safety, and prevent their Hay being spoiled. They all -came to her for Advice, and by that Means got in their Hay without -Damage, while most of that in the neighbouring Villages was spoiled. - -This made a great Noise in the Country, and so provoked were the -People in the other Parishes, that they accused her of being a Witch, -and sent Gasser _Goosecap_, a busy Fellow in other People's -Concerns, to find out Evidence against her. This Wiseacre happened to -come to her School, when she was walking about with the Raven on one -Shoulder, the Pidgeon on the other, the Lark on her Hand, and the Lamb -and the Dog by her Side; which indeed made a droll Figure, and so -surprized the that he cried out, a Witch! a Witch! upon this she -laughing, answered, a Conjurer! a Conjurer! and so they parted; but it -did not end thus, for a Warrant was issued out against Mrs. -_Margery_, and she was carried to a Meeting of the Justices, -whither all the Neighbours followed her. - -[Illustration] - -At the Meeting, one of the Justices, who knew little of Life, and less -of the Law, behaved very idly; and though no Body was able to prove -any Thing against her, asked, who she could bring to her Character? -_Who_ can you bring against my Character, Sir, says she, there -are People enough who would appear in my Defence, were it necessary; -but I never supposed that any one here could be so weak, as to believe -there was any such Thing as a Witch. If I am a Witch, this is my -Charm, and (laying a Barometer or Weather Glass on the Table) it is -with this, says she, that I have taught my Neighbours to know the -State of the Weather. All the Company laughed, and Sir _William -Dove_, who was on the Bench, asked her Accusers, how they could be -such Fools, as to think there was any such Thing as a Witch. It is -true, continued he, many innocent and worthy People have been abused -and even murdered on this absurd and foolish Supposition; which is a -Scandal to our Religion, to our Laws, to our Nation, and to common -Sense; but I will tell you a Story. - -There was in the West of _England_ a poor industrious Woman, who -laboured under the same evil Report, which this good Woman is accused -of. Every Hog that died with the Murrain, every Cow that slipt her -Calf, she was accountable for: If a Horse had the Staggers, she was -supposed to be in his Head; and whenever the Wind blew a little harder -than ordinary, _Goody Giles_ was playing her Tricks, and riding -upon a Broomstick in the Air. These, and a thousand other Phantasies, -too ridiculous to recite, possessed the Pates of the common People: -Horse-shoes were nailed with the Heels upwards, and many Tricks made -use of, to mortify the poor Creature; and such was their Rage against -her, that they petitioned Mr. _Williams_, the Parson of the -Parish, not to let her come to Church; and at last, even insisted upon -it: But this he over-ruled, and allowed the poor old Woman a Nook in -one of the Isles to herself, where she muttered over her Prayers in -the best Manner she could. The Parish, thus disconcerted and enraged, -withdrew the small Pittance they allowed for her Support, and would -have reduced her to the Necessity of starving, had she not been still -assisted by the benevolent Mr. _Williams_. - -But I hasten to the Sequel of my Story, in which you will find, that -the true Source from whence Witchcraft springs is _Poverty_, -_Age_, and _Ignorance_; and that it is impossible for a -Woman to pass for a Witch, unless she is _very poor_, _very -old_, and lives in a Neighbourhood where the People are _void of -common Sense_. - -Some Time after, a Brother of her's died in _London_, who, though he -would not part with a Farthing while he lived, at his Death was -obliged to leave her five thousand Pounds, that he could not carry -with him.--This altered the Face of _Jane_'s Affairs prodigiously: -She was no longer _Jane_, alias _Joan Giles_, the ugly old Witch, but -Madam _Giles_; her old ragged Garb was exchanged for one that was new -and genteel; her greatest Enemies made their Court to her, even the -Justice himself came to wish her Joy; and though several Hogs and -Horses died, and the Wind frequently blew afterwards, yet Madam -_Giles_ was never supposed to have a Hand in it; and from hence it is -plain, as I observed before, that a Woman must be _very poor, very -old_, and live in a Neighbourhood, where the People are _very stupid_, -before she can possibly pass for a Witch. - -'Twas a Saying of Mr. _Williams_, who would sometimes be jocose, -and had the Art of making even Satire agreeable; that if ever -_Jane_ deserved the Character of a Witch, it was after this Money -was left her; for that with her five thousand Pounds, she did more -Acts of Charity and friendly Offices, than all the People of Fortune -within fifty Miles of the Place. - -After this, Sir _William_ inveighed against the absurd and -foolish Notions, which the Country People had imbibed concerning -Witches, and Witchcraft, and having proved that there was no such -Thing, but that all were the Effects of Folly and Ignorance, he gave -the Court such an Account of Mrs. _Margery_, and her Virtue, good -Sense, and prudent Behaviour, that the Gentlemen present were -enamoured with her, and returned her public Thanks for the great -Service she had done the Country. One Gentleman in particular, I mean -Sir _Charles Jones_, had conceived such an high Opinion of her, -that he offered her a considerable Sum to take the Care of his Family, -and the Education of his Daughter, which, however, she refused; but -this Gentleman, sending for her afterwards when he had a dangerous Fit -of Illness, she went, and behaved so prudently in the Family, and so -tenderly to him and his Daughter, that he would not permit her to -leave his House, but soon after made her Proposals of Marriage. She -was truly sensible of the Honour he intended her, but, though poor, -she would not consent to be made a Lady, till he had effectually -provided for his Daughter; for she told him, that Power was a -dangerous Thing to be trusted with, and that a good Man or Woman would -never throw themselves into the Road of Temptation. - -[Illustration] - -All Things being settled, and the Day fixed, the Neighbours came in -Crouds to see the Wedding; for they were all glad, that one who had -been such a good little Girl, and was become such a virtuous and good -Woman, was going to be made a Lady; but just as the Clergyman had -opened his Book, a Gentleman richly dressed ran into the Church, and -cry'd, Stop! stop! This greatly alarmed the Congregation, particularly -the intended Bride and Bridegroom, whom he first accosted, and desired -to speak with them apart. After they had been talking some little -Time, the People were greatly surprized to see Sir _Charles_ -stand Motionless, and his Bride cry, and faint away in the Stranger's -Arms. This seeming Grief, however, was only a Prelude to a Flood of -Joy, which immediately succeeded; for you must know, gentle Reader, -that this Gentleman, so richly dressed and bedizened with Lace, was -that identical little Boy, whom you before saw in the Sailor's Habit; -in short, it was little _Tom Two Shoes_, Mrs. _Margery's_ -Brother, who was just come from beyond Sea, where he had made a large -Fortune, and hearing, as soon as he landed, of his Sister's intended -Wedding, had rode Post, to see that a proper Settlement was made on -her; which he thought she was now intitled to, as he himself was both -able and willing to give her an ample Fortune. They soon returned to -the Communion-Table, and were married in Tears, but they were Tears of -Joy. - -There is something wonderful in this young Gentleman's Preservation -and Success in Life; which we shall acquaint the Reader of, in the -History of his Life and Adventures, which will soon be published. - - - - - CHAP. VII. and Last. - - _The true Use of Riches._ - - -The Harmony and Affection that subsisted between this happy Couple, is -inexpressible; but Time, which dissolves the closest Union, after six -Years, severed Sir _Charles_ from his Lady; for being seized with -a violent Fever he died, and left her full of Grief, tho' possessed of -a large Fortune. - -We forgot to remark, that after her Marriage, _Lady Jones_ (for -so we must now call her) ordered the Chappel to be fitted up, and -allowed the Chaplain a considerable Sum out of her own private Purse, -to visit the Sick, and say Prayers every Day to all the People that -could attend. She also gave Mr. _Johnson_ ten Guineas a Year, to -preach a Sermon, annually, on the Necessity and Duties of the marriage -State, and on the Decease of Sir _Charles_; she gave him ten -more, to preach yearly on the Subject of Death; she had put all the -Parish into Mourning for the Loss of her Husband; and to those Men who -attended this yearly Service, she gave Harvest Gloves, to their Wives -Shoes and Stockings, and to all the Children little Books and -Plumb-cakes: We must also observe, that she herself wove a Chaplet of -Flowers, and before the Service, placed it on his Grave-stone; and a -suitable Psalm was always sung by the Congregation. - -About this Time, she heard that Mr. _Smith_ was oppressed by Sir -Timothy Gripe_, the Justice, and his Friend _Graspall_, who -endeavoured to deprive him of Part of his Tythes; upon which she, in -Conjunction with her Brother, defended him, and the Cause was tried in -_Westminster-hall_, where Mr. _Smith_ gained a Verdict; and -it appearing that Sir _Timothy_ had behaved most scandalously, as -a Justice of the Peace, he was struck off the List, and no longer -permitted to act in that Capacity. This was a Cut to a Man of his -imperious Disposition, and this was followed by one yet more severe; -for a Relation of his, who had an undoubted Right to the -_Mouldwell_ Estate, finding that it was possible to get the -better at Law of a rich Man, laid Claim to it, brought his Action, and -recovered the whole Manor of _Mouldwell_, and being afterwards -inclined to sell it, he, in Consideration of the Aid Lady -_Margery_ had lent him during his Distress, made her the first -Offer, and she purchased the Whole, and threw it into different Farms, -that the Poor might be no longer under the Dominion of two over-grown -Men. - -This was a great Mortification to Sir _Timothy_, as well as to -his Friend _Graspall_, who from this Time experienced nothing but -Misfortunes, and was in a few Years so dispossessed of his Ill-gotten -Wealth, that his Family were reduced to seek Subsistance from the -Parish, at which those who had felt the Weight of his Iron Hand -rejoiced; but Lady _Margery_ desired, that his Children might be -treated with Care and Tenderness; _for they_, says she, _are no -Ways accountable for the Actions of their Father_. - -At her first coming into Power, she took Care to gratify her old -Friends, especially Mr. and Mrs. _Smith_, whose Family she made -happy.--She paid great Regard to the Poor, made their Interest her -own, and to induce them to come regularly to Church, she ordered a -Loaf, or the Price of a Loaf, to be given to every one who would -accept of it. This brought many of them to Church, who by degrees -learned their Duty, and then came on a more noble Principle. She also -took Care to encourage Matrimony; and in order to induce her Tenants -and Neighbours to enter into that happy State, she always gave the -young Couple something towards House-keeping; and stood Godmother to -all their Children, whom she had in Parties, every _Sunday_ -Evening, to teach them their Catechism, and lecture them in Religion -and Morality; after which she treated them with a Supper, gave them -such Books as they wanted, and then dispatched them with her Blessing. -Nor did she forget them at her Death, but left each a Legacy, as will -be seen among other charitable Donations when we publish her Will, -which we may do in some future Volume. There is one Request however so -singular, that we cannot help taking some Notice of it in this Place; -which is, that of her giving so many Acres of Land to be planted -yearly with Potatoes, for all the Poor of any Parish who would come -and fetch them for the Use of their Families; but if any took them to -sell they were deprived of that Privilege ever after. And these Roots -were planted and raised from the Rent arising from a Farm which she -had assigned over for that purpose. In short, she was a Mother to the -Poor, a Physician to the Sick, and a Friend to all who were in -Distress. Her Life was the greatest Blessing, and her Death the -greatest Calamity that ever was felt in the Neighbourhood. A Monument, -but without Inscription, was erected to her Memory in the Church-yard, -over which the Poor as they pass weep continually, so that the Stone -is ever bathed in Tears. - -On this Occasion the following Lines were spoken extempore by a young -Gentleman. - - _How vain the Tears that fall from you, - And here supply the Place of Dew? - How vain to weep the happy Dead, - Who now to heavenly Realms are fled? - Repine no more, your Plaints forbear, - And all prepare to meet them there._ - - The END. - - - - - APPENDIX. - - _The_ GOLDEN DREAM; _or, - the_ INGENUOUS CONFESSION. - - -[Illustration] - -To shew the Depravity of human Nature, and how apt the Mind is to be -misled by Trinkets and false Appearances, Mrs. _Two-Shoes_ does -acknowledge, that after she became rich, she had like to have been too -fond of Money; for on seeing her Husband receive a very large Sum, her -Heart went pit pat, pit pat, all the Evening, and she began to think -that Guineas were pretty Things. To suppress this Turbulence of Mind, -which was a Symptom of approaching Avarice, she said her Prayers earlier -than usual, and at Night had the following Dream; which I shall relate -in her own Words. - -"Methought, as I slept, a Genii stept up to me with a _French_ -Commode, which having placed on my Head, he said, now go and be happy; -for from henceforth every Thing you touch shall turn to Gold. Willing -to try the Experiment, I gently touched the Bed-post and Furniture, -which immediately became massy Gold burnished, and of surprizing -Brightness. I then touched the Walls of the House, which assumed the -same Appearance, and looked amazingly magnificent. Elated with this -wonderful Gift, I rang hastily for my Maid to carry the joyful News to -her Master, who, as I thought, was then walking in the Garden. -_Sukey_ came, but in the Extacy I was in, happening to touch her -Hand, she became instantly an immovable Statue. Go, said I, and call -your Master; but she made no reply, nor could she stir. Upon this I -shrieked, and in came my dear Husband, whom I ran to embrace; when no -sooner had I touched him, but he became good for nothing; that is, -good for nothing but his Weight in Gold; and that you know could be -nothing, where Gold was so plenty. At this instant up came another -Servant with a Glass of Water, thinking me ill; this I attempted to -swallow, but no sooner did it touch my Mouth, than it became a hard -solid Body, and unfit for drinking. My Distress now grew -insupportable! I had destroyed, as I thought, my dear Husband, and my -favourite Servant; and I plainly perceived, that I should die for want -in the midst of so much Wealth. Ah, said I, why did I long for Riches! -Having enough already, why did I covet more? Thus terrified, I began -to rave, and beat my Breast, which awaked Sir _Charles_, who -kindly called me from this State of Inquietude, and composed my Mind." - -This Scene I have often considered as a Lesson, instructing me, that a -Load of Riches bring, instead of Felicity, a Load of Troubles; and -that the only Source of Happiness is _Contentment_. Go, -therefore, you who have too much, and give it to those who are in -want; so shall you be happy yourselves, by making others happy. This -is a Precept from the Almighty, a Precept which must be regarded; for -_The Lord is about your Paths, and about your Bed, and spieth out -all your Ways_. - -_An Anecdote, respecting_ TOM TWO-SHOES, _communicated by a -Gentleman, who is now writing the History of his Life._ - -It is generally known, that _Tom Two-Shoes_ went to Sea when he was -a very little Boy, and very poor; and that he returned a very great Man, -and very rich; but no one knows how he acquired so much Wealth but -myself, and a few Friends, who have perused the Papers from which I am -compiling the History of his Life. - -After _Tom_ had been at Sea some Years, he was unfortunately cast -away, on that Part of the Coast of _Africa_ inhabited by the -_Hottentots_. Here he met with a strange Book, which the -_Hottentots_ did not understand, and which gave him some Account -of _Prester John's_ Country; and being a Lad of great Curiosity -and Resolution he determined to see it; accordingly he set out on the -Pursuit, attended by a young Lion, which he had tamed and made so fond -of him, that he followed him like a Dog, and obeyed all his Commands; -and indeed it was happy for him that he had such a Companion; for as -his Road lay through large Woods and Forests, that were full of wild -Beasts and without Inhabitants, he must have been soon starved or torn -in Pieces, had he not been both fed and protected by this noble -Animal. - -[Illustration] - -_Tom_ had provided himself with two Guns, a Sword, and as much -Powder and Ball as he could carry; with these Arms, and such a -Companion, it was mighty easy for him to get Food; for the Animals in -these wild and extensive Forests, having never seen the Effects of a -Gun, readily ran from the Lion, who hunted on one Side, to _Tom_, -who hunted on the other, so that they were either caught by the Lion, -or shot by his Master; and it was pleasant enough, after a hunting -Match, and the Meat was dressed, to see how Cheek by Joul they sat -down to Dinner. - -[Illustration] - -When they came info the Land of _Utopia_, he discovered the -Statue of a Man created on an open Plain, which had this Inscription -on the Pedestal: _On_ May-day _in the Morning, when the Sun -rises, I shall have a Head of Gold_. As it was now the latter End -of _April_, he stayed to see this wonderful Change; and in the -mean time, enquiring of a poor Shepherd what was the Reason of the -Statue being erected there, and with that Inscription, he was -informed, that it was set up many Years ago by an _Arabian_ -Philosopher, who travelled all the World over in Search of a real -Friend; that he lived with, and was extremely fond of a great Man who -inhabited the next Mountain; but that on some Occasion they -quarrelled, and the Philosopher, leaving the Mountain, retired into -the Plain, where he erected this Statue with his own Hands, and soon -after died. To this he added, that all the People for many Leagues -round came there every _May_ Morning, expecting to see the -Stone-head turned to Gold. - -_Tom_ got up very early on the first of _May_ to behold this -amazing Change, and when he came near the Statue he saw a Number of -People, who all ran away from him in the utmost Consternation, hating -never before seen a Lion follow a Man like a Lap-dog. Being thus left -alone, he fixed his Eyes on the Sun, then rising with resplendent -Majesty, and afterwards turned to the Statue, but could see no Change -in the Stone.--Surely, says he to himself, there is some mystical -Meaning in this! This Inscription must be an AEnigma, the hidden -Meaning of which I will endeavour to find; for a Philosopher would -never expect a Stone to be turned to Gold; accordingly he measured the -Length of the Shadow, which the Statue gave on the Ground by the Sun -shining on it, and marked that particular Part where the Head fell, -then getting a _Chopness_ (a Thing like a Spade) and digging, he -discovered a Copper-chest, full of Gold, with this Inscription -engraved on the Lid of it. - - Thy WIT, - Oh Man! whoever thou art, - Hath disclos'd the AEnigma, - And discover'd the GOLDEN HEAD. - Take it and use it, - But use it with WISDOM; - For know, - That GOLD, properly employ'd, - May dispense Blessings, - And promote the Happiness of Morals; - But when hoarded up, - Or misapply'd, - Is but Trash, that makes Mankind miserable. - Remember - The unprofitable Servant, - Who hid his _Talent_ in a Napkin; - And - The profligate Son, - Who squander'd away his Substance and - fed with the Swine. - As thou hast got the GOLDEN HEAD, - Observe the _Golden Mean_, - Be _Good_ and be happy. - - -This Lesson, coming as it were from the Dead, struck him with such -Awe, and Reverence for Piety and Virtue, that, before he removed the -Treasure, he kneeled down, and earnestly and fervently prayed that he -might make a prudent, just and proper Use of it. He then conveyed the -Chest away; but how he got it to _England_, the Reader will be -informed in the History of his Life. It may not be improper, however, -in this Place, to give the Reader some Account of the Philosopher who -hid this Treasure, and took so much Pains to find a true and real -Friend to enjoy it. As _Tom_ had Reason to venerate his Memory, -he was very particular in his Enquiry, and had this Character of -him;--that he was a Man well acquainted with Nature and with Trade; -that he was pious, friendly, and of a sweet and affable Disposition. -That he had acquired a Fortune by Commerce, and having no Relations to -leave it to, he travelled through _Arabia, Persia, India, Libia_ -and _Utopia_ in search of a real Friend. In this Pursuit he found -several with whom he exchanged good Offices, and that were polite and -obliging, but they often flew off for Trifles; or as soon as he -pretended to be in Distress, and requested their Assistance, left him -to struggle with his own Difficulties. So true is that Copy in our -Books, which says, _Adversity is the Touchstone of Friendship_. -At last, however, he met with the _Utopian_ Philosopher, or the -wise Man of the Mountain, as he is called, and thought in him he had -found the Friend he wanted; for though he often pretended to be in -Distress, and abandoned to the Frowns of Fortune, this Man always -relieved him, and with such Chearfulness and Sincerity, that -concluding he had found out the only Man to whom he ought to open both -his Purse and his Heart, he let him so far into his Secrets, as to -desire his Assistance in hiding a large Sum of Money, which he wanted -to conceal, lest the Prince of the Country, who was absolute, should, -by the Advice of his wicked Minister, put him to Death for his Gold. -The two Philosophers met and hid the Money, which the Stranger, after -some Days, went to see, but found it gone. How was he struck to the -Heart, when he found that his Friend, whom he had often tried, and who -had relieved him in his Distress, could not withstand this Temptation, -but broke through the sacred Bonds of Friendship, and turned even a -Thief for Gold which he did not want, as he was already very rich. Oh! -said he, what is the Heart of Man made of? Why am I condemned to live -among People who have no Sincerity, and who barter the most sacred -Ties of Friendship and Humanity for the Dirt that we tread on? Had I -lost my Gold and found a real Friend, I should have been happy with -the Exchange, but now I am most miserable. After some Time he wiped -off his Tears, and being determined not to be so imposed on, he had -Recourse to Cunning and the Arts of Life. He went to his pretended -Friend with a chearful Countenance, told him he had more Gold to hide, -and desired him to appoint a Time when they might go together, and -open the Earth to put it into the same Pot; the other, in Hopes of -getting more Wealth, appointed the next Evening. They went together, -opened the Ground, and found the Money they had first placed there, -for the artful Wretch, he so much confided in, had conveyed it again -into the Pot, in order to obtain more. Our Philosopher immediately -took the Gold, and putting it into his Pocket, told the other he had -now altered his Mind, and should bury it no more, till he found a Man -more worthy of his Confidence. See what People lose by being -dishonest. This calls to my Mind the Words of the Poet: - - _A Wit's a Feather, and a Chief's a Rod, - An honest Man's the noblest Work of God._ - -Remember this Story, and take Care whom you trust; but don't be -covetous, sordid and miserable; for the Gold we have is but lent us to -do Good with. We received all from the Hand of God, and every Person -in Distress hath a just Title to a Portion of it. - - _A_ LETTER _from the_ PRINTER, _which he - desires may be inserted_. - -SIR, - -I have done with your Copy, so you may return it to the -_Vatican_, if you please; and pray tell Mr. _Angelo_ to -brush up the Cuts, that, in the next Edition, they may give us a good -Impression. - -The Foresight and Sagacity of Mrs. _Margery_'s Dog calls to my -Mind a Circumstance, which happened when I was a Boy. Some Gentlemen -in the Place where I lived had been hunting, and were got under a -great Tree to shelter themselves from a Thunder Storm; when a Dog that -always followed one of the Gentlemen leaped up his Horse several -Times, and then ran away and barked. At last, the Gentlemen all -followed to see what he would be at; and they were no sooner gone from -the Tree, but it was shivered in Pieces by Lightning! 'Tis remarkable, -that as soon as they came from the Tree the Dog appeared to be very -well satisfied, and barked no more. The Gentleman after this always -regarded the Dog as his Friend, treated him in his Old Age with great -Tenderness, and fed him with Milk as long as he lived. - -My old Master _Grierson_ had also a Dog, that ought to be -mentioned with Regard; for he used to set him up as a Pattern of -Sagacity and Prudence, not only to his Journeymen, but to the whole -Neighbours. This Dog had been taught a thousand Tricks, and among -other Feats he could dance, tumble, and drink Wine and Punch till he -was little better than mad. It happened one Day, when the Men had made -him drunk with Liquor, and he was capering about, that he fell into a -large Vessel of boiling Water. They soon got him out, and he -recovered; but he was very much hurt, and being sensible, that this -Accident arose from his losing his Senses by Drinking, he would never -taste any strong Liquor afterwards.--My old Master, on relating this -Story, and shewing the Dog, used to address us thus, _Ah, my -Friends, had you but half the Sense of this poor Dog here, you would -never get fuddled, and be Fools._ - -I am, Sir, Your's, &c. W.B. - -The BOOKS usually read by the Scholars of Mrs. TWO-SHOES, are these, -and are sold at Mr. NEWBERY'S at the _Bible_ and _Sun_ in -St. _Paul's_ Church-yard. - - 1. The _Christmas-Box_, Price 1d. - - 2. The History of _Giles Gingerbread_, 1d. - - 3. 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