coach, agreeable passengers, a fine day, and good roads. So I wish you a pleasant trip. -All's right, coachey.-Hurrah, my boy.Drive on.] LITTLE BIRDS TELL TALES. that he eats and drinks with his sickly appe-ing a thousand pounds a year would hardly be tite." enough for all the good he does; and in my Hedger. "Why, what ails the gentleman?" mind there's none hereabouts but would be the Gardener. "My master made his money in better for it, if master had a great deal more. foreign parts, where he served the king; but-There is young 'Squire Careful, that got a when God sends wealth, he often takes away large fortune by his old uncle, the rich brewer. There is an Eastern story of a vizier, who health, which is the greater blessing. He He keeps his horses, and carriage, and dogs, professed to have a knowledge of the language heard tell that he gained as much for the mer- and tries to be like a gentleman; but its plain was in the doplimatick or civil line, and I've and gets fine clothes all the way from Lunnun, of birds, and who interpreted their chirpings chants and the government, as ever was paid the difference there is between master and him, and warblings in such a manner as to give to him, so what he got wer well earned, and for what comes easy and natural to the one, is very important advice to the sultan, his master, for the better government of his empire. he lost his health besides. A pretty figure all forced work with the other. 'Squire CarePeriodical writers, in like mauner, are fre- you or me that are no scholars, would cut ful he's one of your hot-bed gentlemen, that quently able to convey useful hints to their among the grandees in foreign parts, that my grow up, like mushrooms on a dunghill. He readers in the important art of self-govern- master can talk to as glibly in their own lan- likes too to show the wealth and power he was ment, by indulging their propensity and privi- guages as in plain English. Besides, he was not born to, and drives a hard bargain, and is lege of eaves-dropping, to which I am indebted up to all their tricks, and knew how to ma- ready to go to law about a trifle; but he wants for the following nage 'em as well as the great dons at Lunnun; the moral influence' (as our worthy curate and though he's come home now, and lives calls it) of my master who is kind and liberal, quiet in the country here, the lords and mem- is just, and strives to put down injustice in bers of parliament are for ever writing letters others, and is always among the foremost in to him, as Tom the footman tells me, for his every plan for the good of the country." advice is much thought of. So as you and I could not do his work, we've no right to the It's easy to find thousands to prune a hedge, or keep a garden in trim, but far wiser men than me say, you'll not find one man in thousand like my master." DIALOGUE BETWEEN A GARDENER AND HEDGER a "You've got a snug cottage up there, and likely place altogether, I think, master Robert," said the hedger and ditcher. Yes, 'Dick, (replied the gardener) a com'fortable house, a kind master, regular work, and fair wages, are blessings to be thankful for, especially in these times, when many a poor fellow that's willing to work can't always find employment." pay. a Hedger. "But how does your master spend his money? You say he neither cats nor drinks hearty." Hedger. "Well, I've sometimes been bamboozled by the radical penny papers, that say the rich and the poor ought to have share and share alike; but I've just been thinking as how that wouldn't mend matters, for then our new masters would all be mushroom gentlemen." Gardener. "Very true. But times must be changed indeed before such things can be. Hedger. "Thou wast always a steady, Why Dick, how many days will a thorn hedge honest, hard-working fellow, Robert; and I'm Gardener. "I've heard he was always a continue to grow all of a height without clipglad to see thee so well off. Your master has temperate liver, and now he is obliged to be ping; and a fine garden I should have, sure, set you up comfortably, he can well afford it, so. If he wears finer clothes than we do, as with nothing better in it than onions and no doubt, for they say he's rich." become his station, the manufacturer, and artichokes. 'Squire Careful has a right to his Gardener. 66 "My master's very well to do, clothier, and tailor gain by that, and when they money, for he came honestly by it, and he but if he has a thousand pounds a year, he does are cast off, the poor people are right glad to takes better care of it than several I could far more good with it, than many a gentleman get them. The big house, and the garden, name, with whom it's 'lightly come-lightly that has three times the money; and I'm sure and grounds, must have cost a sight o' money, go,' that are spending as fast as they got it, to has not more than enough when all's done." but that kept all hands brisk for more than a the ruin of body and soul; but what sort of Hedger. "A thousand pounds a year! I twelvemonth; and there is not a labouring masters would they be, that should get power wish you and I had it atween us, master Ro- man within many a mile, but would be glad to and riches hy violence and robbery?" bert, we'd count ourselves rich enow, I'se see the beginning of such another job. It's Hedger. "Half an hour's chat with you, but little that a gentleman spends on himself: master Robert, is a'most as good as a sermon. Gardener. "Yes, rich with thirty pounds my master and mistress, and the two young I see we might make a change for the worse, a year, master Dick. But what would be ladies lay out but little on themselves. Then and you and I have cause to be content as we riches for you and me in the humble condition the cook, and housemaids, and footman, and are. warrant." in which God has placed us, would be poverty dairymaid, and me, and my wife and children, Gardener. "Our curate says money is not for one that has been born and bred a gentle- are all maintained by his means; and you and happiness; and although he is poor, he seems man, and must live in that condition. And others that do odd jobs about the place, help as happy a man as ever I saw. He says too pray what would you do, Dick, with a thousand to get a living by him. And there's Dr. Heal-that the like of you and me, that have neither pounds a year, if you had it?" all, and Mr. Grindlay the grocer, and Brown poverty nor riches,' are just in the condition in Hedger. Why sure, I'd have seven ho- the baker, and the milliner, and most of the which Agur prayed that he might be. (Prov.xxx.) lidays in the week, and plenty of roast and shopkeepers in the village can tell you what And what can be worse than the root of all boiled every day, and plum pudding, and no stint they gain by the family;-and what's better evil? but that root, the Bible tells us, is the in the beer barrel; and a fine coat on my back, still, but for them we should not have had a love of money.' Many people dig away for and ride in my coach like other gentlemen, I school to send our boys and girls to, to learn it, as if there was nothing else worth having, suppose: audto read and write, and cypher, and be taught in and when they have got it at last, think they Gardener. "And much good would come their Bibles on week days and Sundays. The may misuse it as they please, without taking of it I see, if you and my master were to change family are not satisfied, like many gentlefolks, heed of the great day of reckoning, when much places. Why thou doesn't look starved nei- with giving a few pence or broken victuals at shall be required of him to whom much is ther, nor did I ever know thee stint thyself in the door to sturdy beggars, but they know and given. It is written in the Bible, that it is brown stout; and if thy coat be somewhat the visit every poor family in the neighbourhood, easier for a camel to go through the eye of a worse of the wear, it's warm enough to be not only to relieve them in want and sickness, needle, than for a rich man to enter into the sure. I'm thinking my master would be glad but to give them religious instruction and com- kingdom of heaven' surely this should prevent to part with his coach and horses to be able to fort in their distress. I don't know exactly the poor from wishing to be rich." trudge along as thou canst; and it's but little what my master has to spend, but I am think- "Depend upon it, Dick, neither you nor I know how to spend a thousand pounds a year properly. It may be a hard matter to get so much money; but there are many in the world who can gain that, and very few indeed who know how to spend it so well as not to be in danger of losing their own souls." NEREMIAH. THE SCOTTISH WANDERER. [Concluded.] THE SCOTTISH WANDERER to the house of God, swelling and blackness of his leg bad increased, and us, and his whole frame was in a degree convulsed ; but he dozed during the greater part of the day. Nothing could exceed this picture of misery! Hav. ing attended to his immediate wants, I went up by In your last number but one, Mr. Nott, the his side, and gently inquired how he was? From history of this child of penury, who, neverthehis head being muffled in his blanket, he did not hear me. Mr. S. removed the clothes, and asked, less, became a favored child of God, was abruptly How are you?" Happy, happy!" was the reply. broken off at a very early period of his life. "I am truly grieved, my friend," I said, "to see That he was born of obscure parents in Jed- After noticing a journey which the poor you in this deplorable condition. Are you suffering burgh, in Scotland; trained by a pious mother creature took to Bristol, to furnish himself much pain?" "I am sick," said he, “and very weak." At this moment the arrival of the medical to the study of the Bible, and to a regular at- with materials for his work; and the hardships gentleman was announced. I ran to him, and beg. tendance upon the public worship of God; and which he endured by the way, owing to the ged that he would come and see this wretched that at a very early age, (about ten) he com- severity of the weather, and which appear to have object. He accompanied me back to the work-shop, menced travelling hawker of hardwares-these been the immediate cause of his sickness and which he had no sooner entered, than I perceived by an involuntary gesture that he had not before are the brief particulars which have been col-death, his biographer thus proceeds :witnessed many such objects of misery, even in a lected of the early history of Thomas Hogg. When I visited him, I found him in his usual sta | very extensive country practice. He at once inFrom the period of his being sent out into the tion, working upon his chains. He was sitting-aformed me there was but little hope of life. Warm world, to seek the precarious livelihood, afforded posture in which he did not often indulge. I re-fomentations, and large doses of bark and port wine, by a pedlar's pack, he seems to have roamed quested to look at his foot, for it was turned away he said, were the only remedies. Of course no time from me towards the wall. With surprise and alarm, was lost in administering them. I had previously at large, only making occasional visits to his I found the whole leg, from the foot to the knee, so provided a bed in a neighbouring house, and informed native place; the last of these visits, which exceedingly swollen, that he had been obliged to the suffering patient of my wish to remove him to appears to have occurred when he was about rip up his trowsers. It exhibited one continued it, and my anxiety that he should take the medicines thirty-eight years of age, is thus briefly de-appearance of black, except where it was distained prescribed. He very meekly submitted to all I by bladders and patches of blood. It was only par-proposed, saying that he was willing to take any scribed :tially protected from the extreme inclemency of the thing; but, he added, "One night more, and I "He came with his clothes in a most wretched weather by the separated parts of the fastian trow shall be beyond the clouds." condition. His sisters, two very excellent women, sers. He continued to manifest his usual cheerfulfeeling for their brother, and concerned for theirness. "I must insist,” said I, “upon your allowing own credit, got a suit of clothes made without de-something to be done to it. The doctor is expected lay. Thomas, dressed in this manner, continued in in the village to-day, and you must see him; I will the place for some time, visiting old acquaintances, give orders for him to call in upon you." "That is and enjoying the society of his friends. He left kind, very kind," he replied. At this moment some Jedburgh soon after, and his sisters heard no more ignorant prattler in the shop was exclaiming, in a of their brother." very vexatious and offensive manner, that he would not have such a leg (taking off his hat) for that full But your readers, Mr. Nott, can give some of guineas. The old man looked up somewhat account of him. It is time that those of them sharply at him, and said, "Nor I, if I could help who may not have already made the discovery, it." The other, however, proceeded with his rantshould be informed, that the afflicted subject of ing, when the afflicted creature added, "You only torture me by your observations." This was the the Biographical Fragment in your last number only instance approaching to impatience witnessed was no other than Thomas Hogg, the Scottish by those who had the most constant access to him. wanderer. There are indeed wide gaps in his I proposed getting a bed for him, for I found that history. We are introduced to him as a mere of late he had slept in one corner of the work-shop, boy; catch a glimpse of him at the age of "pou the bare earth, without his clothes, the blanket as customary being wrapped round his shoulthirty-eight, and then discover no traces of ders. We wished to have procured him a bed within him till within a few weeks of his death, at the some habitable abode; but he preferred remaining age of sixty-seven; scanty indeed are his me- where he was, and requested us only to provide for I scarce can doubt: why then should I despair ?” morials, but his record is on high, whilst the him some clean straw. As he seemed fixed to his purpose, we consented to comply with his wish; and "Ah, my friend," I rejoined, "what an inconceivmaturity of his Christian character, and the after arranging every thing as well as we could for able blessing it is to have the Son of God for our piety of his unpolished, but nervous and pious his accomodation, I mentioned my intention of im- Friend!" "It is, it is!" said he, in a tone and compositions, prove that though walking in the mediately sending him some warm broth, which he manner that indicated that he was accustomed to obscurest path of human existence, he was one declined with his usual answer, "I have had enough; look to God through that Divine Mediator, and that who "walked with God." The following ex- the care of his worthy friend. As he was so ex-scriptural declaration, "To them that believe, it would be intemperate." I then left him under he was practically acquainted with the truth of that tract from the same pen which furnished the ceedingly ill, he retired on this occasion before the Christ is precious." particulars of his early life, will lead us to re- men had left their work, which was a deviation from Seeing his spectacles lying upon his pillow, I sume the thread of the narrative of his latter his usual habit. Mr. S. missed him from the shop said, "There are your spectacles; but I do not days. for a considerable time, and going into an adjoining think they have brought your Bible? I dare say you store-room, in which no business was done, found would like to read it?" "Bye and bye," be replied: him in the posture of devotion, praying to his Father "I am pretty well acquainted with its contents." who seeth in secret. This, no doubt, was his constant practice; but as Mr. S. and his men usually quitted their work before the old man retired to rest, his habits of secret eommunion with God were now for the first time discovered. "I have been told, on good authority, (writes a minister at Jedburgh) that Thomas, in the time of his youth, was noted for regularity in attending public worship on the Lord's day, a practice which neither change of place, nor difference of opinion in regard to the form of church government, seem to bave relaxed-a habit which extreme poverty and tattered raiment could not shake; a habit which brought The next morning I visited my patient as early as The next morning, Saturday, I found him lying in the comfortable bed to which we had carefully removed him the preceding evening, in his usual calm and contented frame of mind, willing to live, but still more willing to die. I cannot describe the dreadful appearance which his whole body now assumed. His leg was again fomented, and he partook of some broth with eagerness, but his dissolution was evidently drawing near. His speech was almost unintelligible. Delirium became more frequent, and his hands were oftenapparently employed in the task to which they had been so long habituated, making links for chains. By addressing him, you seemed for a moment to recal his mind from its aberrations, and during such intervals he was perfectly collected. After his atteudants were gone, I sat down by his bed-side, and said to him, "I am afraid you are very ill; but I trust you have no fears respecting your future happiness, should it please God to summon you to appear before him?" He opened his eyes, and instantly said, "Fed by his hand, supported by his care, All his fire had now expended itself. I found him articulate so indistinctly, and he appeared so exhausted, that after commending him to the protection of his God and Saviour, I took my leave of him. As 1 was departing, he said, "You have done your duty by me, 1 can say without flattery." Alas! poor soul, would that I had thee here again, (if it were not to bring thy spirit from the mansions of rest amd peace) that I might shew thee how deeply conscious I am of not having done my duty! I pray to God to pardon my coldness, my inactivity, my general remissness! Yes, much more would I have done for thy comfort, much more might I have learned for my own. But thon art gone! May the impression which thon has left apon my mind never be effaced. May I learn also more diligently to work wh le it is called to-day, Since the night cometh in which no man can work! Oh how many opportunities of doing or receiving good do we suffer to pass away, not knowing their value till they are for ever beyond our reach! On Sunday morning, the knell too well convinced - me that my humble friend was no more. I hastened to his chamber. His happy spirit had fled to the bosom of his Maker. He died about two o'clock in the morning withont a sigh. His last word was, in answer to the question, How are you? Happy" a happiness built upon a solid foundation; for, notwithstanding his afflictions in this world, the Saviour was his Friend, the Holy Spirit was his Comforter and God was his Portion and exceeding great Reward. I could not avoid adverting in my discourses on that day to the happy circumstances of this departed saint, who, without a frien 1, excepting those whom Providence had expectedly raised up in his emergency, and without any earthly comforts, had so completely divested himself of every murmur and complaint. Surely nothing but Divine Grace could have enabled him thus to triumph in tribulation. It was in the school of Christ, as I have before remarked, that he hid thus learned, in whatsoever state he was, therewith to be content. earthly misery, with principles, capable, not barely along a table, without displacing the young ones "Within this very narrow place, There lies a little man in little case; MR. NOTT, A very respectable faneral was arranged under the management of the kind friend who at first shel- Sir,-Some time ago you gave an account of tered him, and who did not forsake him so long as he one of the largest animals we are acquainted continued a tenant of our earth. The corse was follow-with-the elephant. Allow me to send you a ed by a long train of, I think I may say, very sincere short history which I lately read, of one of the mourners; for though his residence in the village had been short, and his station was very obscure, yet smallest quadrupeds this country produces it his character, wherever he was known, conciliated will be perused perhaps with interest by some a degree of affection and esteem, which were the of your country friends, more especially at this more unequivocal, as they were an unbought, and season of the year, when it is found in the fields perfectly disinterested, testimony to virtues which and woods in considerable numbers, and is a homely exterior could not conceal, or poverty disgrace. known by the name of In an early stage of our acquaintance, I had learned that he had a considerable taste for versification, and that he used occasionally to amuse his This touching memoir needs but little comment, nor can any more appropriate remarks be offered, than those with which the excellent biographer concludes his narrative. THE HARVEST MOUSE. "This little animal, though a native of our coun a hand, and cautiously smoothing and arranging the hairs with its mouth. When let out of prison it would run about with great swiftness, and climb rapidly over any obstacle in its way: in confinement it ran nimbly about the sides of its habitation, or along the wickered roof with its body downwards. made it a general favourite, and it was with great Its tame and gentle manners, and amusing habits regret that one morning, when its youthful keeper came with the usual supply of barley and fresh grass, the lid of the basket was found to be slightly raised, and the gentle tenant gone.” LOUISA. CORRESPONDENCE. The lines "On the approach of winter" will be inserted; but those on the Acacia are not sufficiently close to their subject. That such a tree was not at the well of Sychar, to afford shade to the Saviour, is hardly a sufficient peg on which to hang a descant on the woman of Samaria. leisure hours by composing a poem. My first step try, is I believe a stranger to many of us. It is therefore after his decease was to get possession of frequently to be found in the sheaves of wheat; it his manuscripts, of which I found two books of con-burrows deep in the ground, and forms for itself siderable thickness, which appeared to be duplicates. warm bed of dried grass, or else retires with several From them I was confirmed in the opinion, if indeed of its companions into the sheltered holes of a ditch I needed any farther confirmation than what my own bank. When the stores which were laid up for its eyes and ears have witnessed, that his religions winter use are consumed, the female quits her re- The sentiments of **** in allusion to the principles were strictly consonant to that holy book treat, and begins to prepare a nest for her young Cholera, and the uncertainty of life, and the which he so much vained, and which he made his brood; this she forms of blades of wheat, or dried infinite importance of our being in a constant companion and guide. grass, curiously platted together; and hangs it state of preparation for the summons are very upon a thistle, a bean stalk, or two or three stems of wheat which grow near together, leaving it just; but at the present crisis it might be more to be rocked by the winds; but as her young ones the part of Christian wisdom, to endeavour to may be thrown out of their cradle in stormy wea- awaken emotions of gratitude for the mitigation ther, she provides it with a roof or covering, either of the scourge, than to dwell incessantly on its by closing it over so carefully that it is very difficult "Thus have I presented a faithful, althongh im- to find the opening, or by availing herself of the perfect history of a poor man, who, in the lowest labours of others in the following manner-There depths of poverty, evinced such remarkable con- is a kind of spider, common in woods and' copses, tentment and cheerfulness under severe sufferings, which forms its dwelling by weaving several leaves as may well excite us to godly jealousy over our-together-here she lays and hatches her eggs; but selves, and animate us to aspire after like precious when the leaves are withered she quits her home, faith: a man who showed no symptoms of a desire and takes shelter in the hollow of a tree. to hurry from life, yet was ready at all times to obey bis great and final summons, and the practical language of whose life was, To me to live is Christ, to die is gain."" "Reader! how does this simple tale call upon you to adore the Father of all mercies, who graciously furnished a poor object in the lowest depths of This withered and deserted nest the harvest mouse frequently selects to form the roof of her own; and it is a curious fact, that out of a dozen of these nests found during winter in some copses in Kent, every second or third had a roof formed in this manner; when complete it is round, and about the size of a cricket ball, and so compact that it may be rolled terrors. Job cannot but welcome to his pages a letter from one whom he gratefully recognizes as, under God, his best "Adviser and Guide." Bristol: Printed and Published by J. & W. RICHARDSON, No. 6, Clare-Street, to whose care all communications may be addressed, post paid; also sold by J. NORTON, Corn Street, BARRY, High Street, and J. CHILCOTT, Wine Street; Mrs. BINNS, Bath; Mr. WHITE, Cheltenham; Mг. BEMROSE, Derby; Mr. HEWETT, Leamington; HAMILTON, ADAMS, and Co. Paternoster Row; and SEELEY and SON, Fleet Street, London. Bristol Job Nott; No. XLIV.] "BANG UP!" OR, LABOURING MAN'S FRIEND. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1832. [Price 14d. like the bee, which they say leaves its sting in the wound, and thereby exhausts her strength "vitamque in vulnere ponit." in mind, just as I was driving up Constitution Hill hard against the collar, the Reform coach was Scene-the [Literary]" Company's Coach Of coming down at a slapping pace-Tom Rad on fice." The Job Nott coach drives up on a the box-the reins almost thrown on the Job. Not a bad hit, Neh.; perhaps the old steady jog-trot; Nehemiah on the box. Job horses' necks-the shoe off the wheel-and the boy over-strained his intellect, and got conat the office door waiting to receive him. coach reeling and swinging as if 'twould upset glomorated, like him that the poet speaks of, Job. Ah, my hearty, well thou'rt come back every moment; some of the steady passengers "Who having whelped a prologue with much pains, all right and tight,-sound, wind and limb, I'll in a terrible fright, calling out to the coachman Feels himself spent-and fumbles for his brains." be bound for't;-hit the time to a nick, and to pull up, and others laughing and huzzaing Ha ha ha!-but we mustn't make too free the nags as cool as a cucumber. [Pats the horses.] him on.-Well, I suppose they got safe that with Woodby; he's a good fellow, though raNehemiah. Ah, master Job, you're a pretty time; but if they let that hair-brained fellow, ther lazy. I trust, however, that all his wits sort of a fellow to serve me such a trick; to Tom Rad, go on driving, I fear some mischief are not gone, but that a few sea-breezes will clap me on the box, and then give me the slip? will come on't. recruit 'em, and he'll come home fresh for our Job. Why you know, master Neh., you got Job. I think so too; but they tell me that winter's campaign." cracking the whip as if you were up to the some of their customers have protested against Neh. But if you think Woodby an idler, thing, so I thought I'd humour thee a bit; and it, and threatened to have Tom Rad up under what will you say to the old Doctor, that took give thee a turn, and see what sort of hand Martin's Act for cruelty to animals and over- his place when we first started, and booked thee'dst make on't. But what sort of journey driving; and that the proprietors are going to himself a regular passenger, but hasn't been hast had? what come home light? no back change their coachman, and turn off Tom Rad, heard of since. carriage, and only that bit o' luggage? Well and put in his place-Pshaw! I forget his name Job. What, Heal-all, eh? Oh! as good a never mind," Forward" is Job's motto; if-old what-d'ye-call that wears a Wig;-that fellow as ever lived; and had a good deal to do load well up along, we don't want any steady old fellow that used to drive the old in setting up the coach; but all of a sudden he back carriage, except to pick up a stray pass-opposition coach formerly. turned sleeping partner. There have been many enger now and then. Come, down with you, Neh. Ah! I recollect him well inquiries after him. One wag would have it my hearty; Dick will look to the coach and thought a bit of a spanker in his time, but that the Doctor had taken a dose of his own rub down the horses, so let's have a word or now these new-fangled Bang-up Gentry are medicine by mistake, and got his quietus. But two with ye. How didst get on, old sober come on the road, he with the wig is too sober that was too hard upon the Faculty, and I'm sides? Steady enough, I'll be bound; whistled for your dashing young blades; but I shouldn't happy to say quite inapplicable to the present 'em up the hills, and dragged the wheel down wonder if old sober-sides should be set upon the case, for you know the chief ingredients of the every bit of a slope, eh Neh. ? ha, ha, ha ! perch again, and the "Reform" be driven at the Doctor's panacea were "Temperance and fresh Neh. Perhaps so, and I suppose there was old steady pace, so as not to injure the constitu- air, and that he takes them himself constantly, no harm in being a little careful; and I kept tion, nor endanger the limbs of His Majesty's and I hope he'll long live to be a witness and my time just as well as if I'd been flogging the subjects. We must not talk politics, you know evidence of the good effects of his prescriptions; cattle all the way :-you know, Job, when one-but there is a sort of conservative principle in and I don't despair of his letting the public keeps on a steady regular pace, and no stopping coach-driving; and I suppose by and by people hear from him again. to tiff it by the way, why then one has no need will find out that 'tis better to go by "the Job to be whipping and lashing to make up for lost time. Besides if I'd been rash and upset the coach, you would'nt have thanked me for that, master Job. we can Job. No fear of that, my good fellow. If Job doesn't upset it himself, there's no fear of thy doing it. Well, I like steady driving, and I think I'll have put over the office door," Neat Post Coach, and careful Drivers," ha! ha! ha! but howsomever Neh,, I think you might have just touched 'em under the flank, and put 'em on their mettle as you turn'd the corner, and drew up to the office. One likes to see things done smartly you know. See how the "TIMES" does it; and the "REFORM," see what style she comes in Bang up! Neh. The Reform, eh!-Aye that puts me he was Nott," or some other safety coach, and come in Neh. Most glad shall I be to welcome the old Doctor back again. But whilst we're speaking of old times, let me ask what's gone with that good little girl Phabe, that used to book herself so regularly by "the Job?" I suppose she got modest and shy at finding she was the only Job. Aye, we begin to load very well, and lady passenger at that time; but latterly, Job, have had several new passengers lately; but you've booked two or three more of the fair howsomever, I wish some of our old friends - and you don't mean to introduce the would take a turn with us a little oftener. salique law into your code, do you? Didst hear tell, Neh. up a long, what's become Job. Ha ha!-not a bad one-but I think of any of 'em?-what's gone with that lazy fellow, Woodby, that he doesn't keep up to the scratch? a Neh. How should I know? I think I've scarcely caught sight of him, except just for moment, since "Will o' the Wisp" came out, so suppose he spent himself in that bit of satire, I sex thou'rt out there, Neh.; I heard, by a side wind, that Phoebe was frightened a bit by Job's over-driving, and that she's thinking of booking herself by one of the heavy coaches, or mayhap by a broad-wheel wagon; but I think, Neh., when she sees thee on the box, she'll be encouraged to book herself now and then, "per Job." However, as the season is now coming perience and religion, false, fleeting shadows of us. We are taxed twice as much by our on when families return to their fire-sides, I absurd prejudices, peculiarly hateful to their idleness, three times as much by our pride, and fully expect "the Job Nott" will load better great leader, Reason! Subtle assertion! per- four times as much by our folly; and from these and better every trip, and that we shall have all nicious mixture of truth and falsehood, worthy taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver our old passengers. So we must brush up a of its diabolical compounder! My dear friends us by allowing an abatement. However, let us little, and get the wheels greased; and get a were indeed peculiarly hateful to such a leader, hearken to good advice, and something may be pen'orth or two of whip-cord, just to put some to such Reason, while they were ever grate- done for us; God helps them that help themlife into 'em. Ha! ha! ha! Well, Neh., I fully beloved and admired by me. selves,' as Poor Richard says. must say thee'st performed to admiration; and * I. "It would be thought a hard government I shall be happy to give thee the box another time. dents. * * * * * * Your friend, and the friend of society, the only real and right REASON. 6 trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night; while laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him. Drive thy business, let not that drive thee; and early to bed, and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise,' as Poor Richard says. * I cannot bear to sketch even the slightest that should tax its people one-tenth part of description of my detestable rival; that horrid their time to be employed in its service: but sneering smile that sits for ever on his face idleness taxes many of us much more; sloth, TO THE LABOURING MAN'S FRIEND. affrights me; but the atrocity of his character by bringing on diseases, absolutely shortens displayed itself most intelligibly in the first life. You will doubtless wonder, my good JOB, at re- mandates that he issued to his followers. "My "Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than laceiving an epistle from one who has so long been, friends" said he, "believe me that all men are bour wears, while the used key is always bright,' and still continues, your constant and familiar equal; equal in intellect; equal in the right of as Poor Richard says. But dost thou love companion; who so warmly approves of, and possessing comforts and luxuries; equal in the life? then do not squander time, for that is the indeed first suggested the benevolent work you capability of enjoyment; how unjust is it then, stuff life is made of,' as Poor Richard says.have undertaken; and who on every Tuesday how tyrannical that this possession and this How much more than is necessary do we spend in the week, sits beside you in your quiet little enjoyment should be unequally distributed. I in sleep! forgetting that the sleeping fox study, your adviser and guide, directing your exhort every one to consider his superior as catches no poultry, and that there will be plans, dictating your sentiments, and consi- his oppressor. I assure you that every step sleeping enough in the grave,' as Poor Richard dering the communications of your correspon- down to which you can pull him that is above says. If time be of all things the more preyou, will be a long one gained to your own cious, wasting time must be,' as Poor Richard You know that I am the best and oldest happiness and welfare."says, 'the greatest prodigality;' since, as he friend of the rich and the poor, of the young You have already shewn, dear JoB, with elsewhere tells us, 'Lost time is never found and the aged, of the happy and the miserable: what dreadful perseverance one of the ad- again; and what we call time enough, always you know too that notwithstanding the many, mirers of this advice acted upon it.* Alas! proves little enough. Let us then up and be many years that I have diligently attended to how many sad and secret tales could I unfold doing, and he doing to the purpose: so my laborious duties, my energies and powers respecting it. For the present, however, this by diligence shall we do more with less perare unimpaired, my inclinations to be of use brief relation must suffice, since it serves to plexity. Sloth makes all things difficult, but undiminished; and that I have been encou- distinguish from the most designing of pretend- industry all easy; and he that riseth late, must raged and assisted by the continually increasing ers, exertions of my invaluable friends, Experience and Religion. You know all this, but alas! you know more also; you have long since discovered that multitudes standing in the greatest need of my admonitions, have despised and rejected me; that thousands have become the "So what signifies wishing and hoping for dupes of the most deadly deception that ever better times? We may make these times better, wound its way into the belief of man, and have if we bestir ourselves. Industry need not allowed my place in their councils to be usurp- I have heard that nothing gives an author so wish, and he that lives upon hope will die fasted by a cruel and accursed monster of iniquity. great pleasure, as to find his works respectfully ing. There are no gains without pains; then It is to explain the cause of this calamity to quoted by others. Judge, then, how much I help hands, for I have no lands; or, if I have, those of your readers who may yet be ignorant must have been gratified by an incident I am they are smartly taxed. He that hath a trade, of it, and to expose the author of this wicked plot, going to relate to you. I stopped my horse hath an estate; and he that hath a calling, hath that I have torn a brief and blotted leaf from lately, where a great number of people were an office of profit and honour,' as Poor Richard the history of my existence, and wish to copy collected at an auction of merchant's goods. says; but then the trade must be worked at, down its language-simple in its sorrow, and The hour of the sale not being come, they were and the calling well followed, or neither the unadorned in its distress, into the pages of your conversing on the badness of the times; and estate nor the office will enable us to pay our admirable publication. one of the company called to a plain, clean, old taxes.-If we are industrious, we shall never Nearly half a century has now elapsed since man, with white locks, "Pray, Father Abraham, starve; for, at the working man's house hunthe great enemy of the human race, who es- what think you of the times? Will not those ger looks in, but dares not enter.' Nor will pecially envies it the possession of my services, heavy taxes quite ruin the country? How shall the bailiff or the constable enter, for 'industry devised the scheme of instilling into the ima- we be ever able to pay them? What would you pays debts, while despair increaseth them.'gination of mankind that I was an impostor, advise us to?"- Father Abraham stood up, What, though you have found no treasure, nor has and then endeavouring to palm on them a ma- and replied, "If you would have my advice, I any rich relation left you a legacy, Diligence licious and deceitful fiend in the place of their will give it you in short; for a word to the is the mother of prosperity, and God gives all Protector and Guide. wise is enough, as Poor Richard says. They things to industry. Then plow deep, while The first step towards the accomplishment joined in desiring him to speak his mind, and sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell of this design, was the announcement "that gathering round him, he proceeded as follows: and to keep.' 'Work while it is called to-day, the Age of Reason had commenced !" The "Friends," says he, "the taxes are indeed for you know not how much you may be hincruel contriver of the wickedness soon found very heavy; and, if those laid on by the govern-dered to-morrow, one to-day, is worth two tovictims sufficiently benighted to work his pur- ment were the only ones we had to pay, we morrows,' as Poor Richard says; and farther, poses on earth; these wretched beings pro- might more easily discharge them; but we have Never leave that till to-morrow, which you can ceeded with determined zeal to proclaim ex- many others, and much more grievous to some do to-day.'-If you were a servant, would you Tom Paine. POOR RICHARD'S WAY TO WEALTH. |