Explore "TALES: FAMILIAR EPISTLE FROM A PARENT TO A CHILD. aged two years and two months" by Charles Dickens on Textopian.
My Child,
To recount with what trouble I have brought you up-with what an anxious eye I have regarded your progress,-how late and how often I have sat up at night working for you,-and how many thousand letters I have received from, and written to your various relations and friends, many of whom have been of a querulous and irritable turn,-to dwell on the anxiety and tenderness with which I have (as far as I possessed the power) inspected and chosen your food;