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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 

 di\ine command ? 



February, 1850. 



