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    378 HARRIOT K. HUN*.

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    father use to me said _—^ he a cap ' never ital disci kne pline w - — -thottg that h I sometimes came in the rebelled slave . -trade My ; money

    b disappointments lessed ; ' the , of the trica business te lawsui transaction ts , vexatious which delays occasioned , and continue this d correspondencewere always referred to ¦» by him in connection with

    the The iniqui good ty of mother , its ori also gin . was " careful to train her little to hel girls to habits

    nec on of their practical tions of the usefulness exertions family . who , for With were she them sen book t tlie them folders children often , and passed entirel p many y some dependen hours con t - ,

    sharing Under their such labor wise . healthinfluence Harriot Hunt grew up to y

    • womanhooduntil in 1827 when she was twenty-two years old , came her pay . first The year , motives of individual which , resp induced onsibility this which step ; of she professional appear dwells to have work tlie been idle for

    mixed aimless ; life very of earnest most are the women pages after in they leave school on . " These admonitions , " says young , " t the from one time wh the o has famil labored Were , no yes t , rich and

    a dearl nd her y loved father to ' s labor heal . th " had A not been same strong . Therefore y , in her early , womanhood , with all the p b romise to work joyfulness The felt a necessities happy home of

    " m ar y ound soul urged , Harriot me to Hunt open for egan myself some :- — path " of usefulness . As our le hous t e chamber was large verl for s okin o small th b famil road y , blue my paren ocean ts and gave there me a I

    p o secret pened t asan he of f amil whatever school y soon , and has o broug became been o ht worthiest _piip g a teacher ils to in the . " my The young existence social mistress is , respectability in my . home " The .

    parents M and y I fir tried st . independent The to profit pleasan by t movem the room wise ent was tact — - my o tliat on school a had live led wi — t was h me along blessed ppy childhood in leadin l > y my g ,

    ei others ht . The ilsand 9 th when of April the , 182 following 7 , found Oc me tober in m came y school I had -room twenty with

    three gpup ! " A , little further on she observes , how truly , "It is well do seldom to en they ter do usuall on ; t not he y beg new till in they pa to th exercise are in driven sunli the ght out sli " g in htest But the this forecast dark is days what as to of women their necessity own so ,

    _" I future I . had made out first school-bills for two quarters ; I had my

    • e us arned eful purpose m life y first , I money and my — over parents had tasted had tlie seen joy leasant my of education exerting and interesting myself ultimated for in in a -

    sister When cidents practical I penned but commenced it . will in pass my still diary my aid school , me for many in I , have keep I very relinquished ing much p up to the say sequence the on j other ournal of subjects to events my . ;

    of our which its sympathies joys now by follow my ; it stated in gave quick daily us better succession avocation _opportunities . . Our That domestic avocation to meet life but the lost widened parents none

    378 Harriot K. Hun*.

    378 HARRIOT K . HUN * .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1860, page 378, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021860/page/18/