16 The Fairy Godmothers.

of men, good people wifh for the approbation of
God.

Now, love of approbation exifts about much
fmaller matters than I have juft been mentioning.
But I would warn my young readers, that, to be
always thinking, and bothering yourfelves as to
what other people are thinking about you, is one
of the moft uncomfortable and injurious habits a
perfon can get into. It makes them fo felfifh and
egotiftical, And here was one of Aurora’s dan-
gers. Becaufe fhe knew fhe was pretty, fhe was
always wondering what other people were think-
ing about her, a habit which fo far from contri-
buting to what the good Fairy had wifhed, viz.
her happinefs, was conftantly fpoiling her comfort
from hour to hour. And here, at ten years old,
was this little lady fwinging languidly and idly on
the rocking chair, wifhing it was fix o’clock, in-
{tead of enjoying, as fhe might fo well have done,
that fmall portion of time, time prefent, which is,
as I told you before, the only bit of him we can
ever lay hold of, as it were. Of time prefent,
juft then, fhe thought nothing. She would have
faid, (had fhe been afked), that the old gentleman
moved very flowly in fpite of his wings, for her
eye was fixed on that delightful time future, fix
o’clock. Well! at laft the clock ftruck, and
Aurora fprang from her chair,—her whole face
altered in a moment. “* Now, Nurfe, I may drefs,
may I not?” fhe exclaimed, radiant with anima-
tion, and all the languor and dreaminefs gone over