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be returned the next day. Four girls of the upper class act in rotation every six weeks, as the houshold servants of the house; and three other girls, with the appellations of Work Girl, Book Girl, and Bonnet Girls, take care of the articles to which their titles apply.

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The object of this charity is to promote religion and industry among the female poor, by early impressing their minds with a just sense of the importance of both, to their present as well as their future happiness; and to place them more effectually above the necessity of being tempted to swerve from rectitude, by enabling them in various ways to earn an honest livelihood:-Besides baking, milking, washing, ironing, and every kind of houshold work, they are taught to spin, to knit, to sew, to plat whole straw for baskets, to cut out and make clothing, which is afterwards sold to the poor at reduced prices. The school also gives, under certain restrictions, a stated price for work, to any girls or young women who apply for it, and might otherwise, perhaps, for want of employment, fall victims to idleness and vice.

24th Jan. 1809.

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ABOUT three miles* and a half from Leeds,› near the remains of Kirkstall Abbey, and ont the banks of the river Aire, is a small hamlet, consisting of ten or twelve families, all of them having a number of children. The fathers of these children are most of them employed at the forge, a neighbouring manufactory for cast iron; the mothers in general cannot read. There is no place of divine worship nearer than two miles; and Sunday was generally spent by the inhabitants, in sauntering through the woods, or about the ruins of the abbey. With a view to remedy this neglect of the Sabbath, a small school has been instituted there on Sundays, One of the cottagers, who has himself seven children, and who has a roomy house, has been induced to act as master, for which he is very well qualified. A few benches and books constituted the whole of the Reports, No. CXL

original expense of the school. The master thinks himself amply rewarded by receiving a guinea at Christmas, together with a few clothes for himself and family. Such parents in the neighbourhood, as are induced to take advantage of the institution, and are from circumstances able to pay, are expected at Christ-mas to contribute a trifle towards firing. Every person willing to conform to the rules of the school, by regular attendance and decent be haviour, is invited to send his children. Neglect of attendance, and want of obedience, are faults for which, if persisted in, the children' are discharged the school. Thirty children,' from five to fourteen years of age (being an equal number of boys and girls) were there yesterday, Sunday, April 17th, decent in their appearance and behaviour, and many of them already able to read very well. ̈ Children, under the age of five years, are also permitted to come; and attend with great willingness,' thereby acquiring habits of quiet attention, before they are capable of learning. Several of the elder inhabitants avail themselves of this' opportunity to hear the Bible. The whole place has now a very different appearance on

a Sunday; and the hedges and birds-nests escape on that day, at least, from the depredations consequent to total idleness. A few books are occasionally given, as rewards for regular attendance, and good behaviour. Some children come from so considerable a distance as two and three miles, and are remarkable for regular attendance. There are, at some seasons, above forty scholars thus instructed, with very little expense and no trouble. The school. commenced in June, 1801. Convinced that time bestowed on these establishments is of much more consequence than the money they may cost, the institutors of this little school, have made a point of visiting them as regu larly, as distance well permits in winter; and, when on the spot in the summer months, at least once every Sunday, hearing the children read, and themselves bestowing the trifling rewards.

The above is deserving of notice and imitation, in every part of England. There is no mode, in which so much benefit may be conferred with so little expense and attention; whether we look to the education of the young, to the comfort, improvement, and religious

habits of the old and middle aged, or to what

is sadly neglected in many parts of England,the due observance of the Sabbath.

18th April, 1803.

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