Part 36 (1/2)

--_Shakespeare_

484

THE ORPHAN BOY'S DREAM

The rooht is dearer far than day; For then, in dreaone away!

His tears are pass'd--he clasps her fast,-- Again she holds him on her knee; And, in his sleep, he o no ht, of indigestion bred

--_Churchill_

486

We sacrifice to dress, till household joys And comforts cease Dress drains our cellar dry, And keeps our larder lean; puts out our fires, And introduces hunger, frost and woe, Where peace and hospitality n'd

--_Cowper_

487

Those who think that in order to dress well, it is necessary to dress extravagantly or grandly,so well becomes true feminine beauty as si purple o'er the ground

--_Geo D Prentice_

488

_Nu drink”

A heathen king, who had been for years confirmed in the sin of drunkenness by the evil practices of white men on the Sandwich Islands, had been led to forsake the dreadful habit He said lately to a missionary, ”suppose you put four thousand dollars in one hand, and a glass of ruive you four thousand dollars, I no drink it; you say you kill me, I no drink it”

489

THE RIGHT ANSWER

In an address to a temperance society, Admiral Capps told a story which is printed in the New York _Tribune_--Asadly at his wife, to whom he had made many promises of reforeous, good woman You should have married a better man than I am”

She looked at him, thin-limbed and stoop-shouldered, prematurely old, and answered, quietly, ”I did, James”