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Excerpt from Tales of Instruction and Amusement: Comprising the Garden, a Cumberland Tale, in Prose; William's Wishes, in Verse; Precepts, in Prose and Verse; To Which Are Now Added; More Precepts; And the Election TO you, my beloved Children, for whose instruction and amusement these Tales were originally written, and on whose memories I with pleasure observe they have already assisted to fix the precepts which they are intended to inculcate, I dedicate this little volume. That they may serve to establish in your minds, and in the minds of all who may favour them by a perusal, the love of those virtues which they are meant to illus trate, is the fervent prayer of. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.