THE MOUTH. 123

éur species is no gentleman, but a dastardly
counterfeit. The position of woman, the .
character of woman, give*her an inviolable
claim to that protection which the encircling
boundaries’ of politeness “are calculated to
afford; and he who breaks them down, or
overleaps them, is a cowardly trespasser«:

The Mouth.
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The mouth® was made to eat and speak
with. It is therefore a convenient and useful
thing, and we could not do without it.

But the mouth, like almost everything
else, needs to be taken care of. Sometimes
the mouth will pout, and make a person look
very disagreeable.

Sometimes the mouth will eat very fast,
and get too much in at a time. Do not let .
your mouth do any such things as these :

I had almost forgotten to tell you another
very curious thing about the mouth, and
that is, that it laughs. I believe dogs, and
cats, and pigs, and hens, and geese, never
laugh; but children laugh, and old people
too, sometimes.