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seemed to consider herself as bound by
‘an indispensable obligation, to promote,
as much as possible, the interests of her
new friend. “ I wish Jessy could live
with us,” said she one day, ‘cand not
be obliged to go home, only now and
then, just to see her mammy.’—“ I
wish so, too,” said Charles, ‘*O!”
added Rosa, “* we could make her so
happy. Would you leave your mammy,
Jessy r’—** Yes, if I might live with
you,” cried Jessy, ‘and go and see her
sometimes.” —“ Jessy shall come and
play with you often,” said Dame, “ but
she must not leave her mammy: good
children always stay with their parents ;
you would not have left your dear
Mamma, would you?”

Fé No m dear Mamma left me,”
d
cried