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Title: The Little Quaker
or, the Triumph of Virtue. A Tale for the Instruction of Youth

Author: Susan Moodie

Release Date: December 19, 2007 [EBook #23918]

Language: English

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THE
LITTLE QUAKER;
OR, THE
TRIUMPH OF VIRTUE.

A TALE
FOR THE INSTRUCTION OF YOUTH.

Teach me to feel another's woe,
To hide the faults I see;
That mercy I to others show,
That mercy show to me. POPE.

LONDON:
PRINTED FOR WILLIAM COLE,
10, NEWGATE STREET.

PRINTED BY G. H. DAVIDSON,
IRELAND YARD, DOCTORS' COMMONS.

FRONTISPIECE.

[Illustration: _The little Quaker remonstrating with George & William
Hope for their cruelty._ _p. 11._]

THE LITTLE QUAKER.

George and William Hope were the only children of a gentleman of
fortune, who lived in a fine house at the entrance of a pretty village
in Berkshire.

It was this worthy gentleman's misfortune to be the father of two very
perverse and disobedient sons; who, instead of trying to please him by
dutiful and obliging conduct, grieved him continually by their unworthy
behaviour, and then were so wicked as to laugh at the lessons of
morality their parent set before them.

When they returned from school to spend the holydays, they neglected
their studies to roam about the streets with low company; from whom
they learned profane language, vulgar amusements, and cruelty to
animals; but such conduct, as may well be supposed, did not conduce to
their happiness. They had no friends among the good and virtuous in
their own rank in life; and were even despised and condemned by the bad
companions, who, in the first instance, had encouraged their depravity.

Their idle pursuits gave Mr. Hope great pain, who tried, by gentle
remonstrances, to