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 careful while repeating them to her little scholars.
 These autumn walks also afforded fine opportunities
 to her of pointing out such birds as wintered with us,
 when the great band of summer musicians had ceased
 to play, and gone over the sea; and greatly delighted
 they were when they saw a little golden-crested wren
 and she told them that though it was one of our
 smallest British birds it stayed with us all the year
 round, while so many larger birds, which many of them
 knew by sight, deserted us until the following spring.
 The rector smiled, when I said that I could picture
 in my fancy the attendant angels employed like her,
 leading little children by the hand through the gar-
 dens of heaven."
 Christabel Brampton had, from her own observa-
tion, learnt to look up from Nature "to Nature's God,"
though few teachers had had so much experience in the
out-of-door world as fell to her share, and the good
curate was always enforcing upon her the necessity of
instilling into the minds of the children the principles
of Christian religion. "For," said he, "if they are
not taught in school or church, few I fear will care
about them when they grow older, and go out into the
world." And upon the children themselves he would
try to enforce our Saviour's beautiful parable of the
" Sower."




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