14 GLENOWEN, OR THE

so good as your dear mamma was to me.
Ab, well a day! I have had a sad
loss; but she is an angel in heaven,
and will, I hope, watch over me, as
they say angels in heaven do, and sce
that I perform my duty to her poor
dear babes. O! that ever I should
outlive her!” Then stifling -her own
emotions, she redoubled her caresses,
and endeavoured to sooth and amuse
her little favourites ; who appeared truly
sensible .of her attentions, and in a
short tinie ‘became satisfied, and even
chearful.

The good woman never failed to
assure them, that the only proof of
affection they could now shew to the
memory of theirs departed parent, was
to observe those rules which she had

herself