Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1850-04-25
The Nest Of Young Birds.
A letter from the late Hon. William Wut L
his daughter. eight years old.

MC INCSt VI Willis III ~.cs
A letter from the late Hon. William WIt to
his daughter, eight gears old.
MY DEAR LAURA IL would have answer
ed your letter sooner, but that my courts and
my clients hardly leave time to write 10
your dear mother, TO whom OF earthly cfea-
lures, you and owe our first duties. Butt
have not loved you the less for not writing
10 you !: on the contrary have been think
ing with the greatest affection, and praying
ior you on my bended knees, night and morn
ing, humbly begging of God that he would
bless you with health and happiness, and
make you an ornament TO your sex, and q
blessing to your parents. But we must not
be like the man that prayed 10 Hercules to
help his wagon on, of The mud, and was too
lazy too Try to help himself; no, we must be
thoughtful Try our very best 10 learn our
books, and 10 be good aud then If we call
upon our Father in Heaven, He will help us.
am very glad your latin grammer is be-
coming easier to you. Ii will be more aud
more So the more you give your whole mind
to it. God has been very kind in blessing
you with sound understanding and it would
he sinful in you to neglect such great bles-
sing and suffer your mind 10 go 10 ruin in
stead of improving it by study, and making
it beautiful well as useful, TO yourself and
others. 1t would be almost as bad as il would
he for Uncle Cabel to he so lazy hlmself,and
TO suffer his laborers to be so lazy as 10 make
his rich low grounds run up all in weeds, IN
stead of corn, and so have no bread TO give
his family and let them all starve and die.
Now your mind is as rich as Uncle Ca5elPs
low ground and all that your mother and
father ask Of you, is, that you will be indus
trious and studlous, and SO your mind Will
bring fine crop Of fruit and flowers.
Suppose that there was nest full Of beail-
riful young birds, SO young that they could
not fly and help themselves, and they were
opening their little mouths aud crying Tor
some thing 10 eat and drink, and their pa
ren's would not bring anything, but were To
let them CRY on from morning till night, TIL
they starved aud died, would not they have
been very wicked parents? Now your mind
is this nest far mole beautiful and meiodlous
Than any canary birds in the world and
there sits fancy, and reason, and memory,anI
Judgment all with their little heads thrust
forward out Of the nest, aud crying as hard
as they can for something TO eat and drink.
Will you not love your father and mother
ior irving to feed them with books and learn
ing, the only kind of meat and drink they
love, and without which those little young
sers must in a few years, hang their heads
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best 10 help your father and mother 10 feed
them, that they may grow Up, get full suit
of fine glossy feathers, and cheer the house
with their songs Z? And moreover, would 1t
not he very wrong 10 feed some of them only,
and let the rest starve? You are very fond
when you get new story book of running
through it as fast as you can, just Tor the
sake OF knowing what happened to this one
and that one, in doing this you are only
| feeding, Que of the four birds have men
toned,-that is fancy, which. TO be sure, IS
| the loudest singer among them, and Will
| please YOU most while you are thus feeding
aud surfing fancy,-reason, memory and
1 judgment are starving ; and yet by-and-by.
YOU will think their notes much softer and
swee,er then those of fancy. although not
so loud, und wild, and varied. Therefore
YOU ought TO feed those other birds, too !;
they eat great deal slower than fancy ;
they require The grams 10 be pounded IN
mortar before they can get any food from
| them that is, when you read pretty story,
you must not gallop over il as fast ns yon
can, Just TO learn what happened but you
must stop every now and then, and consider
why o!ie OF the persons you are reading OF,
is so much beloved, and another so much
hated This sort Of consideration pounds
the grain in mortar, and feeds reason and
| Judgment. Then yon must determine that
you will not forget that story, but that you
will Try to remember eyery part OF II that
you may shape your own conduct by it,
doing those good actions which the story has
told you will make people love You, and
avoiding those evils ones which you hnd
will make them hate you. This is feeding
memory aud Judgment both al once. Menu
ory, too, is remarkably fond Of tit-bH Of
Latin grammar and though the food la hard
to come at, yet the sweet little bird must not
starve The rest of them could do nothing
without her {; for if she was to die, they
would never sing again.-at least not sweet
ly. Your affecllonale iather,
WM. Writ.