198 LITTLE HUNCH-BACK.

monument to the memory of Lady Bountiful, on her decease,
which event did not occur till some years after his return to
England ; so that she had the pleasure of seeing the child whom
she had raised from obscurity, become a rich and respectable
man, surrounded by a blooming offspring, of whose education
he took the greatest care, never neglecting the least opportunity
that offered, of instilling into their minds, that the paths of
virtue lead to the temple of happiness.

LITTLE HUNCH-BACK.

‘Trere was in former times at Cashgar, upon the utmost
skirts of Tartary, a tailor that had a pretty wife, whom he doted
on, and was reciprocally loved by her. One day as he sat at
work, a little hunch-back came and sat down at the shop-door, and
fell to singing, and playing on a
tabor. The tailor took pleasure
to hear him, and resolved totake
him to his house to please his
wife. ‘This little fellow,” said
he to his wife, “ will divert us
both this evening.” He invited
him in, and the other readily
accepted the invitation ; so the
tailor shut up his{shop and
carried him home, As soon as
they came in, the tailor’s wife,
having before laid the cloth, it being supper-time, set before them
agood dish of fish ; but as the little man was eating, he unluckily
swallowed a large bone, of which he died in afew minutes,