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INDUSTRY AND IDLENESS.
BY T. s. ARTHUR.
THE MARRIED SISTERS.

Come, William, single day out OF three
hundred in year is not much
True, Henry Thornc. Nor is the single
drop of water lha first finds way through
the dyke much and yet the first drop bu,
makes room for small stream to follow,
and then comes flood. No, 10, Henry, |
cannot 20 with you to-day; and if you are
governed by friends advice, you will no,
neglect your work for the fancied pleasures
OF sporting party
"A work and no play makes Jack dull
boy. We we're not made to be delving
with tools in close rooms. The fresh free
air is good for us. Come, William, YOU
will feel better for little recreation. You
look pale from confinement. Come; can
not 90 without YOU
Henry Thorne,' said his friend William
Moreland, with an air more serious than at
first assumed, 'let me urge you to stay
lit is vain, William replied his friend, in
. rust not, Henry. Surely, my cary
friend and companion is not deaf to reason
NO, not TO right reason
swell, listen to me. As said at first, it
Is not the loss of a single day, though even
that lost, is serious waste of time, that
now take into consideration. 1t is the dam
ger Of forming a habit of dleness. 1t is a
mistake, that day of idle pleasure recre-
ates the miad and body, and makes us return
to our regular aud necessary employment
with renewed delight My own experience
is, that day thus spent causes US to resume
our lhborS with reluctance, and makes irl>-
some what beiore was pleasant. l. il not
your own Z
'Wet|, don't know? can't altogether
say that it's; indeed, | never thought abou,
it,
Henry, the worst of all kinds of decep-
ton is sclldeception. Don't, let me beg of
you, attempt to deceive yourself in "A matter
SO important. am sure you have expert
enced this reluctance to work after day of
pleasure. 1t is an universal expprience.-
And now that we are on this subject will
add, that have observed in you an ncreas-
ing desire to get away from work. You
make many excuses, and they seem to be
good ones. Can You tell me how many
days you have been out Of the shop in the
last three months
NO, cannot was the reply, made in
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'Well, can, Henry
'flow many is it, thenl'
'Tcn days.
'Ncvor.'
'l' is true, for kept the count
Indeed, then, you are mistaken. | was
only out cunning three times, and fish,
ing twice
And that makes five times. But don't
yon remember the day you were made sick
by fatigue p
yes, true, but that is only SIX
'And the day you went up to the noun
tain with the party
yes
'And the twice you staid away because it
sormed p
'But, William, that has nothing to do with
the matter. If it stormed so violently that |
couldn't come to the shop, that surely is not
TO be set down to the account of pleasure
taking
And yet, Henry, was here, and so were
all the workmen bat yourself Ifthere had
not been in your mind a reluctance to COM
Ing to the shop, | am sure the storm would
not have kept You. ] am plain with YOU,
because am your friend and you know it,
Now, it is this increasing reluctance on your
part that alarms me. Do not, then, add
fuel to a flame, that if thus nourished, will
consume you.'
'Bu William
Don't make any excuses, Henry. Think
OF the aggregate of ten lost days You can
earn dollar and half a day easily, and do
earn it whenever you work steadily. Ten
days in three months is fifteen dollars. All
last winter you know, Ellen went witlou, a
cloak, because you could not afford to bay
one for her; now the money that YOU could
have earned in the time wasted in the last
three months, would have bought her very
comfortable one-and you know that il is
October now, and winter will soon be again
upon us. Sixty dollars year buys a great
many comforts for poor man.
Henry Thorne remained silent for some
moments. He felt the force of William
Moreland's reasoning; but lis own inclina-
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