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foolish fears; and that many of those things 

 which they have been taught to look upon as 

 signs and omens, can be explained entirely to 

 their satisfaction, and found to proceed from 

 perfectly natural causes. Remind them, and 

 always keep in remembrance yourselves, that 

 we are all under the care of a kind and loving 

 Father, who sleeps not by night, nor slumbers 

 by day; that not a sparrow falleth to the ground 

 without His notice ; and surely He who careth 

 for the sparrows, will never forget his dependant 

 children. 



But we have talked about superstition till it 

 is so late, that I will not commence the subject I 

 had proposed for our conversation this even- 

 ing. I intended to tell you something about 

 Crickets ; but perhaps our time has been quite 

 as profitably employed, and we will leave them 

 for the present. 



