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After this was all arranged, Mary and Caroline 

 invited me to play at shuttlecock, as the day was 

 rainy. Shuttlecock I had never seen, and knew 

 only from your description ; my first attempts, 

 therefore, produced a great deal of laughter. 



. Sunday. I am sure you would like 

 the way that Sunday is spent in this house, my 

 dear Mamma. There is no day that brings you 

 so particularly to my mind, because several 

 things that occur here make me remember what 

 you have often said in regard to it, and the 

 good habits you tried to give me. 



My uncle generally selects some passage, in 

 Scripture, for the purpose of conversing upon it, 

 and leading us to think; or else some expression 

 which he sees requires explanation, and on which 

 some light can be thrown, either from parallel 

 passages, or from profane authors. These little 

 conversations are, generally, between breakfast 

 and the time of setting out for church. 



This day he read the llth chapter of 2d of 

 Corinthians, and told us, that St. Paul's expres- 

 sion " to triumph in Christ," v. 14, alludes to 

 the Roman triumph, or the celebration of a 

 victory ; and as the conqueror went in procession 

 through the streets of Rome to the Capitol, with 

 the attendant captives following the triumphal 

 car, so the apostle describes himself as led from 

 city to city, and from province to province, 



