Letter 10
My dear Nellie,
I have found a curious letter from a lady amongst grandfather's papers, so begin this letter with a copy of it:
Dear Sir Eyre,
We live in an age so dissolute that if young girls are not kept under some sort of restraint and punished when they deserve it, we shall see bye-and-bye nothing but women of the town, parading the streets and public places, and, God knows, there are already but too many of them!
When fair means have been used, proper corrections free from cruelty should be administered.
What punishment, and at the same time more efficacious, than birch discipline?
Physicians strongly recommend to punish children with birch for faults which appear to proceed from a heavy or indolent disposition, as nothing tends more to promote the circulation of the
