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Excerpt from The Servant's Friend; An Exemplary Tale: Designed to Enforce the Religious Instructions Given at Sunday and Other Charity Schools Thomas simpkin's, when a little boy, was an exceedinglydctiful good child the comfort of his father and mother, who 'were very indurious honefi people: they taught him betimes if) fior my! Firw God, and to do un'o orbrr; as b: wou.'d t/uy jbozild do unto bim and he paid foch regard to their inttruc tions, that he never negleé'ted to fay his prayers morning and evening, nor on any account miffed going to church twice _a day on Sundays, unlefs pre vented by illnefs or attending on his father and mo ther, if they chanced to be lick. Neither would he injure or vex any human creature, or hurt by defrgrt even a worm or a y. When Thomas was about ten years old, his father died of a fever, which grieved him very much, and he feared it would break his poor mother's heart; but (he was a good woman, and in a ibort time tried to overcome her grief, for {be coniidered that God Almighuyknows what is bell his creatures; and, as her hufband had led a pious life, [be truiied that he was gone to a better \placc, where, as he told her on hrs death-bed, he hoped he firould be happy for ever, and (he would; meet him again, ifit was not her own fault. 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.