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E. to caution his fellow colonists about the future risks of warbthe colonies may face.
A parental wish is something (usually a task) that a parent would like to be accomplished by the child.
The truth was, that the little Puritans, being of the most intolerant brood that ever lived, had got a vague idea of something outlandish, unearthly, or at variance with ordinary fashions, in the mother and child, and therefore scorned them in their hearts, and not unfrequently reviled them with their tongues.