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The girl's own book (1833)

Child, Lydia Maria, 1802-1880 · New York : Clark Austin & co. · leaf 247

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cultivated here are of abeautiful straw colour. The Chinese children are much employed in the manufac-tories of silk. Indeed, they are brought up always to be busyabout something or other. A gentleman just returned fromCanton, told me he never saw the children at play there ; thatthey all look like… … ON KEEPING ANIMALS.It is a good rule to keep only such animals as are happierfor being domesticated ; such as kittens, dogs, or pet lambs. Iwould not keep a robin shut up in a cage, for the price of fiftybirds. Do what you can for him, you cannot make him halfso happy as he would be abroad among…

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