Excerpt from The Looking-Glass for the Mind, or Intellectual Mirror: Being an Elegant Collection of the Most Delightful Little Stories and Interesting Tales
The next morning, little Adolphus thus' ad dressed his aunt: This is my. Dear father's birth-day, I will go and see him, and wish him joy. She endeavoured to persuade him from it; but, when she found that all her endeavours were in vain, she consented, and then burst into a flood of tears. The little youth was ialarmed, and almost afraid to ask any ques tions. At last, I fear, said he, my dear papa is either ill or dead. Tell me, my dear. Aunt, for I must and will know: I will sleep no more till I see my dear father, who so ten derly loves me.
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His most famous work was L'Ami des Enfans (1782-3) which was first translated into English, albeit bowdlerised, by Mary Stockdale and published in London in 1783-4 by Mary's father John Stockdale.