14 WILD DICK AND 38 good little boys are apt to do, told his father and mother all that Richard had said to him. Mr. Little had observed for some time, that farmer Wild was neglecting his farm, and getting behind hand ; and, after talking the matter over with his own good wife, he came to the conclusion, that it was his duty to seek a fail- opportunity and itaVe 11-friendly and earnest conversation with Ins old'h^ighbor, on the fatal tenden^of h^r habits of life.\“I shall have relieved my inn»d,. Mid done my ^luty to an old friend,” shid he, “ if efforts should produce no good.”' He availed himself accordingly of the first fair occ^^n, which presented itself, oft the' following Sabbath, after meeting.—His counsel was of no avail; and he was grieved to find, by an increased violence of manner,'’ and an apparent regardlessness of public opinion, that his poor neighbor Wild was farther gone than he had supposed. His irritability of temper had sadly increased,- and Mr. Little was shocked to find, that he could not converse on the subject, without using profane and violent language. The next
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