The Fairy Godmothers. 15

with it was fix o’clock!” but the fa& was this ;
at half-paft fix the little girl’s Mamma was ex-
pecting a large party to dinner and the little girl
was to drefs at fix and be ready to go down and
fee the company :—I might add and to be feen by
them; for the little girl was, as you will have
guefled, the beautiful Aurora herfelf, and there
had been plenty of foolifh people, though her good
Mamma was not one of them, to tell her how
pretty fhe was and how much people admired her.

It is a very pleafant thing to be admired, both
for children and grown up people. ‘ The love
of approbation,” as it is called, i. e. the with to be
approved of and admired is a feeling which is very
ftrong in moft people; not in quite all, perhaps,
but in moff people certainly. But like all other
powers of the mind confidered apart from the in-
fluence of the heart and confcience, it is capable
of being ufed to a very bad or a very good purpofe.
Thus you may remember what our Saviour fays
of the Pharifees who ftood praying at the corners
of the ftreets that they might be feen of men:
Verily, they had their reward—viz: that men ad-
mired them : whereas thofe who do good deeds
and pray privately, i. e. unfeen and unadmired by
men, fhould verily have their reward in that day
when God who feeth in fecret himfelf fhall reward
them openly.

Here you fee is the fame ftrong feeling, —love
of approbation, exercifed in a wrong and a right
direction. The Pharifees with for the approbation