ruth; and yet Miss Sukey was so foolish, that she did not care to own
herself in the wrong; though nothing could have been so great a sign of
her understanding.

When Miss Jenny saw her thus at a loss for an answer, she was in hopes
of making her companion happy; for, as she had as much good nature as
understanding, that was her design. She therefore pursued her discourse
in the following manner:

MISS JENNY. Pray, Miss Sukey, do answer me one question more. Don't you
lie awake at nights, and fret and vex yourself, because you are angry
with your school-fellows? Are not you restless and uneasy, because you
cannot find a safe method to be revenged on them, without being punished
yourself? Do tell me truly, is not this your case?

MISS SUKEY. Yes it is. For if I could but hurt my enemies, without
being hurt myself, it would be the greatest pleasure I could have in the
world.

MISS JENNY. Oh fie, Miss Sukey! What you have now said is wicked. Don't
you consider what you say every day in your prayers'? And this way of
thinking will make you lead a very uneasy life. If you would hearken to
me, I could put you into a method of being very happy, and making all
those misses you call your enemies, become your friends.

MISS SUKEY. You could tell me a method, miss? Do you think I don't know
as well as you what is fit to be done? I believe I am as capable of
finding the way to be happy, as you are of teaching me.

Here Miss Sukey burst into tears, that anybody should presume to tell
her the way to be happy.

MISS JENNY. Upon my word, my dear, I don't mean to vex you; but only,
instead of tormenting yourself all night in laying plots to revenge
yourself, I would have you employ this one night in thinking of what I
have said. Nothing will show your sense so much, as to own that you have
been in the wrong. Nor will anything prove a right spirit so much as
to confess your fault. All the misses will be your friends, and perhaps
follow your example. Then you will have the pleasure of having caused
the quiet of the whole school; your governess will love you; and you
will be at peace in your mind, and never have any more foolish quarrels,
in which you all get nothing but blows and uneasiness.

Miss Sukey began now to find, that Miss Jenny was in the right, and she
herself in the wrong; but yet she was so proud she would not own it.
Nothing could be so foolish as this pride; because it would have been
both good and wise in