At laft, down came the ftorm with great fury, and hail and rain mixed fell in torrents. All her companions were fafe at home before it began, and none were expofed to its rage but poor Caroline, who indeed, got home at last, but in a most difaftrous condition. She had left one of her fine fhoes behind her in a large muddy hole, which, in her precipitate flight, fhe had hurried over without obferving; and, to fill up the meafure of her miffortunes, just as she had got over the meadow, a fudden gust of wind made free with her hat, and blew it into a pond of stagnated and filthy water.

So completely foaked was every thing fhe had on, and the heat and rain had fo glued her linen to her, that it was with difficulty they got her un dreffed; as to her filk flip, it indeed afforded a miferable spectacle of fallen pride and vanity.

Her mother, feeing her in tears, jocofely faid to her, "My dear, shall I have another flip made up for you against to-morrow?"-" Oh, no, mamma, anfwered Caroline, kiffing her, I am perfectly convinced from experience, that fine clothes cannot add to the happiness of the wearer. Let me again have my nice white frock, and no more powder and pomatum till I am at least ten years older? for

I am afhamed of my folly and vanity."

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Caroline foon appeared in her former drefs, and with it fhe recovered her ufual eafe and freedom, looking more modeft and pleafing than fhe ever did in her gaudy finery. Her mamma did not regret the lofs fhe had fuftained in the wreck of the filk flip, fine fhoes, and hat, fince it produced the means of bringing her daughter back to reafon and prudence.

What is the fex's earlieft, latest care,

The heart's fupreme ambition? To be fair:
For this the toilet every thought employs,
Hence all the toils of drefs, and all the joys:
For this, hands, lips, and eyes are put to fchool,
And each inftructed feature has its rule;
And yet how few have learnt, when this is giv'n,
Not to difgrace the partial boon of heav'n?
Do you, my fair, endeavour to poffefs
An ellegance of mind as well as drefs;
Be that your ornament, and know to please
By graceful Nature's unaffected eafe.

ADRIA

THAN ONE.

DRIAN had frequently heard his father fay, that children had but little knowledge with refpect to what was moft proper for them; and that the greateft proof they could give of their wisdom, confifted in following the advice of people, who had more age and experience. This was a kind of doctrine Adrian did not understand, or at least would not, therefore it is no wonder he forgot it.

This wife and good father had allotted him and his brother Arthur a convenient piece of ground,

in order that each might be poffeffed of a little garden, and display his knowledge and industry in the cultivation of it. They had alfo leave to fow whatever feed they fhould think proper, and to transplant any tree they liked out of their father's garden into their own.

Arthur remembered those words of his father, which his brother Adrian had forgotten, and therefore went to confult their gardener Rufus. "Pray tell me, faid he, what is now in feafon to fow in my garden, and in what manner I am to fet about my bufinefs?" The gardener hereupon gave him feveral roots and feeds, fuch as were moft proper for the season. Arthur instantly ran, and put them in the ground, and Rufus, very kindly, not only affisted him in the work, but made him acquainted with many things neceffary to be known.

Adrian, on the other hand, fhrugged up his fhoulders at his brother's induftry, thinking he was taking much more pains than was neceffary. Rufus not observing this contemptuous treatment, offered him likewife his affiftance and instruction; but he refused it in a manner that fufficiently be trayed his vanity and ignorance. He then went into his father's garden and took from thence a quantity of flowers, which he immediately tranfplanted into his own. The gardener took notice of him, but left him to do as he liked.

When Adrian vifited his garden the next morning, all the flowers he had planted hung down their heads like fo many mourners at a funeral, and, as he plainly faw, were in a dying ftate. He replac ed them with others from his father's garden; but, on vifiting them the next morning, he found them perishing like the former.

This was a matter of great vexation to Adrian, who confequently became foon difgufted with this kind of bufinefs. He had no idea of taking fo much pains for the poffeffion of a few flowers, and therefore gave it up as an unprofitable game. Hence his piece of ground foon became a wildernefs of weeds and thiftles.

As he was looking into his brother's garden, about the beginning of fummer, he faw fomething of a red colour hanging near the ground, which, on examination, he found to be ftrawberries of a delicious flavour. "Ah! faid he, I fhould have planted strawberries in my garden.

Some time afterwards, walking again in his brother's garden, he faw little berries of a milkwhite colour, which hung down in clufters from the branches of a bufh.

found they were currants,

Upon examination, he

which even the fight of

was a feaft. Ah! faid he, I fhould have planted currants in iny garden."

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