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the purer minded daughters of the country. It 

 may be well for the Town girl that it is so, 

 that by knowing her danger she may avoid it ; 

 but it is a sad school for a girl, and the sys- 

 tem is more than questionable that consists in 

 shewing her vice that she may not fall a victim 

 to it; quere, has it not often a contrary 

 effect ? 



London people of either sex seem to think 

 country-bred persons below themselves in the scale 

 of inhabitants of the world, and the greatest con- 

 tempt they can express is, *'You may see by his 

 or her look they are from the country ; " or, 

 "They have quite a country look with them." 

 True they have so, but what of that ; the 

 bonnet of the girl may, and probably, is not 

 of the last mode ; but it may be a very becom- 

 ing bonnet for all that. The clothes of the man 

 may carry with them a country cut, but they 

 may possibly carry with them a more sensible 

 cut than those of the London gent. If you 



