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fome things that are eafy to do, in order to inure him 

 to fatigue ; another of five years, who accompanies his 

 father to market, carrying a little bundle on his back ; 

 a girl of the fame age who begins to learn to fpin ; and 

 another t>oy of fix years whofe father employs him to 

 pick up the ears of maize, which happen to lie on the 

 ground in the market-place. 



In the fifty-firft painting are drawn a father who 

 teaches his fon of feven years of age to fifh ; and a mo- 

 | ther, who teaches her daughter of the fame age to fpin ; 

 fome boys- of eight years, who are threatened with pu- 

 nifhment if they do not do their duty ; a lad of nine 

 years, w T hofe father pricks feveral parts of his body, in 

 order to correct his indocility of temper ; and a girl of 

 the fame age, whofe mother only pricks her hands ; a 

 lad and a girl of ten years, whofe parents beat them with 

 a rod, becaufe they refufe to do that which they are 

 ordered. a n *J[ &JL 



The fifty-fecond painting reprefents two lads of eleven 

 years, who, not being amended by other punifhments, 

 are made by their fathers to receive the fmoke of Chilli, 

 or great pepper up their nofe ; a lad of twelve years, 

 whofe father, in order to punifti him for his faults, keeps 

 him a whole day tied upon a dunghil, and a wench of the 

 fame age whofe mother makes her walk, during the 

 night, all over the houfe and part of the ftreets ; a lad 

 of thirteen years, whofe father makes him guide a little 

 velfel laden with rufh.es ; and a wench of the fame age 

 grinding maize by order of her mother ; a youth of four- 

 teen years employed by his father in fulling, and a young 

 woman fet to weave by her mother. 



In the fifty-third painting, are reprefented two youths 

 of fifteen years, the one configned by his father to a 



pried, 



