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would make no manner of impreflion on minds 

 which have imbibed this prejudice, that no one 

 whatever has a right to force them to any 

 thing. 



A mother on feeing her daughter behave ill 

 burfts into tears ; and upon the other's afking 

 her the caufe of it, all the anfwer flie makes is, 

 Thou di (honoured me. It feldom happens that 

 this fort of reproof fails of being efficacious. Not- 

 withstanding, fince they have had a more frequent 

 commerce with the French, fome of them begin to 

 chaftife their children, but this happens only among 

 thofe that are Chriftians, or fddh as are fettled in 

 the colony. Generally the greater! punifhment 

 which the Indians make ufe of in chaftifing their 

 children, is by throwing a little water in their face ; 

 the children are very fenfible of this, and in gene- 

 ral of every thing that looks like reproof, which 

 is owing to this, that pride is the ftrongeft paflion 

 at this age. 



Young girls have been known to ftrangle them- 

 felves for a flight reprimand from their mothers, or 

 for having a few drops of water thrown in their 

 face, warning them of what was going to happen 

 in fuch words as thefe, You jhall not have a daugh- 

 ter long to ufe fo. The greateft evil in this fort of 

 education, is that what they exhort young people 

 to is not alway virtue, or that what comes nearly 

 to the fame thing, that the ideas they give them 

 of it are not juft. In fact, nothing is fo much in- 

 ftilled into them, whether by precept or example, 

 as an implacable defire of revenge. 



• It would feem, Madam, that a childhood fo ill 

 inftruclcd, fhould be followed by a very diflblute 



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