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under pain of being rigorously chastised, promising them also to love them and make them honest and well-conditioned if they wish to subject themselves to study and understand with attention the beautiful precepts that they will teach them. This little preface being made, every morning at four o'clock at all times (since the Kingdom was reduced to Christianity) they are made to rise, dress, comb, and wash their hands, then kneel down, the Master making prayer, reading to them and interpreting something of the Catechism, or of the commandments of God, as long as they are well instructed in the faith, according to their capacity. When this is finished, they sing the pause of a Psalm, and separate to go to class at five o'clock, in which the Master having led them until eight o'clock when the bell rings to go to the temple, where they go in good order with their Masters of the chamber, taking beforehand a piece of bread four fingers wide. The sermon finished, which at most lasts only an hour, each one goes to the exercises of his age until eleven o'clock, when they return home to dine until noon. The |