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little in the horn at your girdle , and made me drink it before we lay down to sleep on the long grass with the horses tethered around . The water was hot , and it almost scalded me to drink it , for I knew how thirsty you were yourself . Bless thee , boy ! but talk not now of those things . My blood is chilled when I think on the peril of that night . Even now the rapid heat of a horse ' s hooves will sometimes startle me from my self-posses- * sion . But thou wert about to ask me something , boy . What is it ? First tell me , may I not call you father ? I would not call you by any other name . Why not , boy ?
It seems that I love you more when I call you father . Then call me so , boy . I would not have thine affection lessen ; it is a treasure above all price to me . What else didst thou want ? You promised to take me a ramble , as you formerly used to do . It is long , long since I have been out with you , and I want you to show me London , which I have not yet seen .
© how thee London , boy ! It would take a generation ; i . e . to show it inside and out * Volumes without end might be written about it , full of romance and poetry , as well as business and calculation . A street might furnish matter for a painter ' s existence—all of pure artificiality . Show thee London ! What , in a day ! Thou mayst ascend St . Paul ' s and overlook it , which , perchance , many would call seeing London , but we will do rather more . We will get a sketch or two , and thread some of the main avenues . What is the hour ?
Nine . Then we will set forth , and we shall find London living , its denizens all in a hurry , pushing , and bustling , in breathless excitement ; yet ask one of them what his ultimate object is and he will tell you only 4 money . ' Ask him what is the purpose of money , and you will at once plunge him beyond his depth . He knows not that the legitimate end of human life is human happiness . For human ' happiness * he has been taught to read human ' accumulation . ' Let us go quickly , father . Yet a word , boy . Remember , that if to-day is to be a day of excitement , to-morrow ' s lessons must be doubled . Thy tools , thine instruments , thy books , they must be left in order , that they may be found when next needed . And the animals dependent on thy care , are they fed ?
All is done , father . Let us go . Yes , when thou hast changed thy garb , boy . The world is not yet quite rational . Thy cap and tunic are commodious and graceful , but the boys in the streets would bait thee for not being clad so inconveniently as themselves , and their elders would exclaim against me for 4 making such a figure of the child / Thou must even put on the worldly garb that painfully girds thee , and remember , that liberty of
min . d , and the free supervision of thy fellows , can only be achieved by deferring in outward appearance to their taste , or rather to the want thereof . Wear not thy heart upon thy sleeves , boy , or it will be torn into very shreds , and constant pain will at length eradicate thy benevolence of spirit . Love thy fellows , an <} abstain from irritating
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678 Juvenile Lessons .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1833, page 678, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2624/page/18/
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