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tunately too full of accounts of the habits of such chil- 

 dren.'* 



In not a few instances the "hired man" has been 

 the means of communicating to innocent little boys the 

 infamous knowledge which, fortunately, they had not 

 acquired in babyhood. With no knowledge of the evil 

 they are committing, they begin the work of physical 

 damnation which makes a hell of life, and leads to 

 endless death. 



The ''hired girl" is often an equally efficient agent 

 for evil in the instruction of little girls in this debasing 

 vice. Some time ago, the very intelligent parents of a 

 bright family of children were awakened to the im- 

 portance of this subject by the perusal of the first edi- 

 tion of this work, and upon investigation were horri- 

 fied to find that their oldest child, a promising daughter 

 of ten, was already a victim to the vile practice, having 

 been initiated by a ''hired girl," After using in vain 

 every means he could bring to bear upon the case, 

 the father brought her to us, and with tears in his 

 eyes gave his story. After telling of his unsuccessful 

 attempts to effect a reform, he declared that he would 

 far prefer to place his daughter in the grave than to 

 see her grow up a wretched victim of this vice. We 

 were most happy to be able, after a few weeks' treat- 

 ment, to restore her to her parents, as we hope, per- 

 manently reformed. Not a few such cases are con- 

 stantly coming to the attention of physicians. 



Are these lines perused by any one who has ever 

 taught another this vice so vile, and so certainly fol- 

 lowed by penalties so terrible,— penalties not upon the 

 instigator but upon the hapless victim? Let such a 

 person clothe himself in sackcloth and ashes, and do 

 penance for the remainder of his life. The only way 



