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beads; and this is all that compofes the fur- 
niture of the new-born child. Whether the 
mother goes to work or to a ball, and even 
though flie dance, {he never quits her child. 
The latter, of which nothing is feen but 
the head, never cries or fquawls except 
when it has occafion to fuck. The mother 
then turns it and draws it on one fide ; nor 
is it neceffary for her to untie it, except 
when fhe is advanced in years, or has had 
feveral children. Without difplacing the 
one flie carries, {he conveys her breaft to it 
under her arm, or throws it over her flioul- 
dcr; the child, fatlsfied, then ceafes to cry; 
and the nurfe continues her dancing. 
When the mother judges that it is in a 
condition to crawl and to aflift itfelf, (he 
places it on the ground before her hut ; and 
by force of creeping it learns the ufe of its 
limbs, and from day to day tries to ftand up- 
riglit : one attempt conduds to a fecond ; 
it becomes bold, and foon acquires fuflicient 
ftrength to run and to follow its mother. 
This method, fo fimple and natural, is in 
my opinion much fuperior to our- leading- 
ftrings, which crufh and confine the breaft. 
The difproportion between the ftrength of 
their 
