The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1863-11-25
!, The Cat and the Glass Bottled Wall.


enc Of Old Humphreys Books. Perhaps
your school may not have received y; IT'S
entitled "Chapters for Children. and con-
tains many stories as interesting as TINS
enc: :. !,
While was one day standing with my
uncle Morris. looking in the direction OF
the rarden. we saw black cat walking
,i.ns The glass. bottled wall. Oh. how choice
was She Of her steps! how daintily she trod
the pointed glass and the decayed mortar
feeling her way with her paws, and raising
her tail in the air to balance her body.
NV uncle was not man to overlook SUCH
a sisht. :. Humphrey, Humphrey said
he, !. if had walked as carefully through
the world as pussy is walking along the
wall yender. how many snares should
have avoided! See how she is picking her
vay: not a paw will she pu, down till she
Is satisfied Of firm and easy footing. How
cautiously, how softly she proceeds! What
a reproot TO the headlong career Of the
shoughtfess and self.willed.
!" MANY persons. Humphrey. have been
made to remember the sins oil their YOUTH
and compelled against their will to 60 soft
" all their days; but few, very few, o.
their own accord take up the resolution OF
IN. Psalmist. Il will take heed to my ways,
Fps. xxx. 1 y or regardahe advice oil the
APOSTLE, See that ye walk circumspectly,
nat as fools, but as wise.'" (Eph. v. I'D
while nv nncle was still speaking, the
black cat stiIl creeped along the top OF the
garden wall, neither looking to the right
land nor the left. When she had got to
the end, she cautiously placed her paws
against the wall, as far as she could, with
her head downwards, and then taking q
leap. lodged on the garden roller. after
which she scampered quickly along the
middle walk.
aAy, ay, Humphrey" said my uncle,
apuss knows when she may run without
danger; and yell would it be for US all u
we knew il too. How many people have
seen walking, and lazily too, when they
oueht TO have been running in the ways o
salvation; and running heedlessly, whei
they ought to have taken heed to thei
stepsr" = ~. i.
ltwa. not half an hour after this. tina
being abroad with young companion. am
seeing my unels at distance. we BON Sc
ont to run. trying which should hrst get I
him. I took the shorter cut. and got ahes
e my companion; but in attempting TO ru
along the top Of bank, rolled into IN
ditch; very fortunately, IL was dry a. IN
Ssttsm. nv comrade left me behind him.
"Quietly quietly !" said nv uncle MOI
ris. as afterwards ran up to him out
breath; che who sets out at the top OIL d
speed will tire ere he gets 70 the milestone
The candis that burns the fastest VIII
soonest srtinguished in the socket. Thos
vns ran fast at irst are sure to lose the
wind. I. isa capital thing. no douet. !
be ahead Of your eomPanionsi bat then
is sad thing 70 be passed IN the middle
your race. Beginning well Isl good thlnI
Humphrey; bat endurance to the END
better. am afraid you have forgotten y
black cat creeping along the gless.bottl
vail; she managed much better than 20
have done; but the roll you have bad
the ditch may perhaps make you user i
tAs futsrs." Humphrey" said my uncl'
altar ! pause, rs We walked or togethe
cit "a necessary in common life to val
circunsp0elly. but it Is especially 50 IN y
uxristian cosrseJ for cur paths are bes
with a. nssy dangers and difficulties as Y
eat found in her var along the garden val
Teach me thy way, o Lsrd. and lead q
Ia a plain path Is an excellent prayer
have continually in cur mouths. rs. xIvl
Ill. He that walketh uprightly walkel
.surelyi prov. Z. 90 and he who seel
Gods guidance is the most likely TO .
f.rth Gods glory. When We walk carr
Isssly in holy things. We are always 10 dat
ger; but when we commit on. ways to u
iord, We are alwsys secure. Then q
that 70 walk cifcumspecuyi rot as fool
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