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THE STORY
OF AN
OFFICERS FAMILY IN ALLESTONE.
FOR MY DEAREST MOTHER.
PART I.
An Allestonian family, one which was in the greatest rank and fortune, at least for the subjects of the king, were very happy on the coming of a little healthy baby, which family God had given reason to know that it would come.—According to your recommendation, I will now go on to the beginning of his education. The wise education of the parents gave the son, named in Latin Geoffricus Lanleius, great instruction in learning the alphabet. The progress that he made, having a spelling-book of the same edition as my own, enabled him to attend to the rules for reading. His progress was
