_The Treatment of Animals.—The Story of crazy Robin.—The Man confined in the Bastille._ 17 _CHAP._ IV. _Anger.—History of Jane Fretful._ 25 _CHAP._ V. _Lying.—Honour.—Truth.—Small Duties.—History of Lady Sly and Mrs. Trueman._ 32 _CHAP._ VI. _Anger.—Folly produces Self-contempt, and the Neglect of others._ 44 _CHAP._ VII. _Virtue the Soul of Beauty.—The Tulip and the Rose.—The Nightingale.—External Ornaments.—Characters._ 47 _CHAP._ VIII. _Summer Evening’s Amusement.—The Arrival of a Family of Haymakers.—Ridicule of personal Defects censured.—A Storm.—The Fear of Death.—The Cottage of Honest Jack the shipwrecked Sailor.—The History of Jack, and his faithful Dog Pompey._ 55 _CHAP._ IX. _The Inconveniences of immoderate Indulgence._ 66 _CHAP._ X. _The Danger of Delay.—Description of a Mansion-House in Ruins.—History of Charles Townley._ 72 _CHAP._ XI. _Dress.—A Character.—Remarks on Mrs. Trueman’s Manner of Dressing.—Trifling Omissions undermine Affection._ 83 _CHAP._ XII. _Behaviour to Servants.—True Dignity of Character._ 89 _CHAP._ XIII. _Employment.—Idleness produces Misery.—The Cultivation of the Fancy raises us above the Vulgar, extends our Happiness, and leads to Virtue._ 93 _CHAP._ XIV. _Innocent Amusements.—Description of a Welch Castle.—History of a Welch Harper.—A tyrannical Landlord.—Family Pride._ 98 _CHAP._ XV. _Prayer.—A Moon-light Scene.—Resignation._ 106 _CHAP._ XVI. _The Benefits arising from Devotion.—The History of the Village School-mistress.—Fatal Effects of Inattention to Expences, in the History of Mr. Lofty._ 112 _CHAP._ XVII. _The Benefits arising from Devotion.—The History of the Village School-mistress concluded._ 119 _CHAP._ XVIII. _A Visit to the School-mistress.—True and False Pride._ 122 _CHAP._ XIX. _Charity.—The History of Peggy and her Family.—The Sailor’s Widow._ 126