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Miss Nanny was the eldest of three sisters, the daughters of a

ship; and his all

having perished with him, they were indeed, as their mother said, the

children of Poverty and Sorrow By the help of a little credit, the

contrived, in a small shop, to eke out her days till Nanny was able

to assist her It was the intention of the poor wo, and Nanny was destined to

instruct the pupils in that higher branch of accomplishment--the

different stitches of the sa to the requisite degree of perfection in chain-steek and

pie-holes--indeed had ress in the Lord's prayer between two

yew trees--ta was introduced at Irvine, and Nanny was sent to

acquire a coe of that classic art, honoured by the fair

hands of the beautiful Helen and the chaste and domestic Andromache In

this she instructed her sisters; and such was the fruit of their

application and constant industry, that herschool, and continued to ply her little huxtry in more easy

circuht them that it

would not be wise to trust to the looly Nanny was at so; and it was fortunate that she did so--for