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was ever more attentive : only when flesh was given to 

 her and she broke it up for her young family, she 

 appeared mortified that, after taking a few morsels, they 

 left her and her carrion to pick up the grain with which 

 they were supplied. 



Have we not something to answer for in confining 

 God's creatures in solitude, where they cannot fulfil the 

 divine command ? 



February, 1850. 



