A Friend in Need 
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will turn her house into an asylum for stray cats ; but 
I have often heard mistress say, and so I believe it 
is true, that many parents would have less cause to 
mourn over selfishness and ingratitude in their 
children if they would set a more generous and un- 
selfish example before them in their own treatment 
of dumb and helpless creatures. 
