Excerpt from Robert Merry's Museum, Vol. 17 Her good resolutions were, however, as yet strong within her; she persevered, and she had just finished her work as the bell for breakfast rang. She ran down and kissed her father and mother, and sat down to the table in great spirits. Her mother presented her with a very hand somely bound blank book, for a journal, and her father gave her a nice writing desk. In her journal she was to te down evely time she was careless, or thoughtless. She w told her parents how deter mined she was to correct herself, and how sure she was that she should have very little to write against herself. She was, however, somewhat humbled when her mother bade her enter in her account of the day, Notwithstanding all my hopes and determinations, came down to breakfast without my tire, and in couse quence soiled my dress. No shoe-strings in my shoes, and reproved for going round the house with them slipping off at every other step. 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 techlogy 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.