The design of the Editor in this abridgement of a popular tale was, to form a work expressly adapted for the perusal of youth. The feelings of the heart uncontaminated by vice, the docility and industry of two children abandoned to themselves at an early age, and subsequently the lessons of a watchful and enlightened preceptor, appeared to her subjects proper to interest the affections and excite the emulations of youth; but, as many of the characters and scenes in the narrative could afford neither pleasure nor advantage to the young reader, she was obliged to make considerable alterations, the necessity of which must be obvious to everyone acquainted with the original work. She has studiously endeavoured to preserve its interest, and to imitate its simplicity. If she has failed in these points, she has the satisfaction to reflect, that the work, in its present state, may with safety be submitted to the perusal of Juvenile Readers, and offers them a model of innocence supported throughout its trials by courage and perseverence...
Ambrose and Eleanor: or, The adventures of two children deserted on an uninhabited island, Ducray-Diminil, Peacock
(Meet me in the Garden of Eden
Bring a friend
We will have ourselves a time)
Ideas are not that hard to come by? A/mus(e)/(s)ing.
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