The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1858-06-16
Short Patent Sermon.

wv PoS'tb"i VI viz NV wy 'N~
Sir Walter Scott, but can't tell you ex-
actly where, as follows:
hale TO learn the cbb Of time,
From yon dali .teeple's drowsy chime,
Or mark the -unbea,ns as hey crawl,
Inca aIter inch, along the wall
NV lIEARERs While being driven by
neecssilious employment, like stage horses,
from one end of the day to the other, you
probably think sometimes how pleasant ii
would be to have nothing 10 dU--aye, have
nothing to do but to la oil, like alligators
upon u sunny bank, aud indulge In stupid
ehmeras. That may all do very well to
thinh about occasionally, but when you
come to harness your ideas to heavy prac-
tice, YOU will find it the hardest work in
the world to do nothing, and nary too! in
order. [ s very nice, cat like, to sit and
sun ones self for brief hour, in the warm
genial rays of fancy; but when lethargc
caterpillars begin to build their cobweb
nests in your brains, and you fell yourself
turning into leaden statutes, it's time to be
scratching.
During long and severe task of idle
ness, my brethren, time, instead of fit
ting past with silkcn wings, goes moping
along, like broken down dray horse with
the heaves and hogshead of molasses.-
The hours don't dance to merry music as
they pass, put plod slowly, solomnly on,
like a funeral procession on drizzly day,
and minutes crawl like snails in dark pa-
ces, where the sun never shines, or like so
many flies just escaped from molasses
cup.
1t takes but short time, my friends, for
laziness to become chronic. II freezes on
to fellow like a bulldog on to a -sow's
car; and when it does, it's a good deal
harder to shake off than possum from a
persimmon tree. In fact, you don't care
about troubling tit feels rather good
lndn OtuerWlSc 1ou icci US III you "SiS
laying off at the Halfway House on the
road to Heaven, with your legs stretched
on three chairs, and sucking a sherry cob
bier through a rye straw. Yes, you like
to sit and stretch and yawn, and mould,
and mildew,-with the happy flies dane
ing quadrilles beneath the ceiling mark
the sunlight as it crawls. inch by inch
along the win ,ow sill-listen to the clock
as 1t mournfully tells how lazy the hours
roll around and no wonder that time isn't
later-dream of making a fortune by-and-
by, just as easy as going to church after
dinner-and laying the corner stone Of
some mighty undertaking that shall result,
perhaps, in vast pyramid Of wealth, hon.
or, renown. happiness, and other similar
luxuries.
But, my very slightly beloved do-noth-
ings, all the while you are thus half
g,your heads are nightly apt to be plan
ming no good, while your peace-deserted
hearts are gradually changing into so many
devils dens. You sit and grumble at your
il-iortune-for your path never leads to a
lucky locality--to a rich strike SO you
fall to contriving how you can best make
raise without exerting yourself to honest
industry. First, perchance, you pitch up
on gambling, petty thieving, and living up.
on three-cornered meals at the drinking.
houses; then turn politican-get an office,
where you can have the lingering OF some
OF my money, speculate, and get booted
out. There being no chance for further
success in the political line, you try yolr
hand at highway robbery, live for time,
in continual fear Of your own shadows,
till, finally, decorated with hemp you sud-
denly find yourself, elevated to a position
mot one Of your own choosing-but one
to VIII ch you are abundantly entitled, as
areward for conspicuous deeds and dar-
ing exploits. 1 don't 'holler' on any such
as you. The only merit could ever dis
cover in superlstively indolent folks is,
that they sometimes run down bill-being
too lazy to prevent it.
Lazy bones why sit ye there, all the
day dreaming, or listening to 'yon dull
stceple's drowsy chime?' Awake, arouse
swallow glass of sweet oil and tur-
pentiue, to remove all rust from the inside
and pitch in; keep pitching in from the
rising of the sun even to tho going down
of the same-and the hours will whir
like the wheels of sulky on a trottns
course, and gisten like the newly-var
nished spokes in the same. Verify, you
own business shall be your clocks, anc
the amount Of work accomplished as yor
go along, will tell you the time O. day te
minute. 'holler' on that. So mote i
be!-[Goden Era.