24 STUDIES OF NATURE. 



terrified with the idea, that God has in referve 

 dreadful piinifhments for ungrateful children ; 

 with them, filial duty was born of maternal affec- 

 tion : they had been taught no other religion than 

 that which inftrufts us to love one another; and, 

 if they did not offer up long prayers at church, 

 wherever they were, in the houfe, in the fields, or 

 in the woods, they raifed toward Heaven innocent 

 hands and pure hearts, filled with the love of their 

 parents. 



Thus paffed their early infancy, like a beautiful 

 dawn, which feems to promife a flill more beauti- 

 ful day. They, already, divided with their mo- 

 thers the cares of the houfhold : as foon as the 

 crowing of the cock announced the return of Au- 

 rora, Firghiia rofe, went to draw water at a neigh- 

 bouring fountain, and returned to the houfe to 

 prepare breakfaft : foon after, when the fun had 

 gilded the peaks of that enclofure, Margaret and 

 her fon went to the dwelling of Madame delà l^our, 

 where they immediately began a prayer, v/hich was 

 followed by their fivfl repaft ; this they frequently 

 partook of, before the door, feated on the grafs, 

 under a bower of bananas, which furnifhed them, 

 at the fame time, with ready-prepared food, in 

 their fubflantial fruit, and table-linen in their long 

 and glittering leaves. . 



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