advise you to cultivate an intimacy with your Heavenly Father. Offer to him your mite of praise and thanksgiving every morning and evening; let not a single day pass without asking earnestly for his protection; and remember that you honour the Son, even as you honour the Father; for he that honoureth not the Son, honoureth not the Father which sent him."

CHAPTER XI.

"He that the way to honesty would learn,
First what's to be avoided must discern."

THE STORY OF HORACE COLTHURST.

"I WILL now," said Willy, "read about the wise and good landlord, for I love to read about good people."

Horace Colthurst, though a butcher by trade, was a gentleman by nature. The trade had been chosen for him by his father, and though Horace most heartily disliked it, he was too gentle and complying to offer any very strong opposition to his father's wishes. Horace therefore followed-in his footsteps, (he was also a butcher,) and in that line made a very considerable fortune: and the way he did so was as follows. The cattle he slaughtered

were never over-driven, nor wantonly treated. The merciful man shows compassion even to his beast. Even so did Horace Colthurst. The most easy and quickest mode of death was resorted to by the humane butcher, and from this humanity in the butcher, arose a circumstance which was the main cause of his after good fortune. The cattle being in a cool quiet state when slaughtered, and the operation of slaughtering being quickly over, the meat in consequence was not only of a finer flavour, but it kept longer than the meat of any other butcher, and therefore was more tender.

The consequence was, that Horace Colthurst became renowned for good meat; he became the fashionable butcher, and his stall was resorted to by all classes of the community, so that in a few years he was enabled to leave off business, and became the proprietor of a handsome country seat. The same system of humanity he practised in private life, which had guided him in his public business. He divided a large portion of his ground into very small farms, for the accommodation of poor farmers; and the immensity of good which this small farming system did in the country was incalculable. For it not only benefited the petty farmers, but it caused provisions to be both cheaper and more plentiful,—the wives and daughters of the small farmers being occupied in rearing large quantities of poultry, so that butcher's meat fell in consequence; and as for butter and eggs, they were to be

had for a mere trifle. In short, Horace Colthurst, the humane butcher, bronght back to the county of, the golden days of good Queen Bess, when a good fowl was sold for six pence, and two dozen eggs for a groat."

CHAPTER XII.

He's truly prudent, who can separate
Honest from vile, and still adhere to that;
Their difference to measure, and to reach,
Reason well rectified must nature teach."

THE STORY OF THE TAILOR.

WILLIAM FITTER, the tailor, was a dapper little man, but what he wanted in height he made up for in the good sense of his head, and the honesty of his conduct. He was not like a great many tailors, who, if they get a coat out of their hands, are very careless whether it fits the wearer or not. William Fitter was exceedingly particular in the fit of every article of dress that he made; inasmuch, as to stop his customers in the street sometimes, saying-"I beg your pardon, sir, but I find there is a fault in your coat, which, if you'll have the goodness to send to my shop, it shall be rectified. William Fitter was at the same time so obliging and civil, and so very moderate in his charges, that he became

a favourite with all those who dealt with him, and they recommended him to others, so that his business increased daily. But with his increase of business, his family also increased, so that, though he had many customers, yet as his prices were very small, and his family very large, (he had twelve children,) he sometimes found himself a good deal puzzled to square his accounts at the end of the year. He was afraid that if he raised his prices he might lose many of his customers; and Will Fitter being one of those characters who think before they act, he began to deliberate what was best to be done, and by cálculation (for the tailor knew the use of figures) he discovered, that if he could double the number of his customers, he could afford to continue his low prices. And the mode he adopted to increase his business, he accomplished in the following method.

Instead of issuing shop-bills, he had his name and trade inscribed upon pieces of copper, about the size of a penny, which he distributed amongst his friends, and sent all over the town and country. This durable document attracted notice, and its whimsicality induced many to employ him. It was ever Will's rule to have the best articles, so that a new customer always became an old one.

Will Fitter, we believe, was not the original inventor of this sort of shop bills. It is said that Sir Richard Hotham adopted a similar plan, and that to it he owed his rise in life. But the truth is,

honesty, sobriety, diligence, and an obliging demeanour, will undoubtedly raise any, and every tradesman to eminence in his line. It is a true saying, and ought to be imprinted upon every person's memory, that we can all do more for ourselves than any one can do for us. Good and evil are both placed before us, and if we prefer the evil to the good, the fault is our own, and we must abide the consequences of our choice.

CHAPTER XIII.

"Howe'er exalted, or deprest,
Be ever mine the feeling breast.
To thee, Humanity, still true,
I'll wish the good I cannot do;
And give the wretch that passes by.
A soothing word—a tear-a sigh.'

STORY ABOUT JOHN ANDREWS THE PUBLICAN.

JOHN ANDREWS began life as a wine-merchant; but not having a sufficient capital, he failed, and was reduced to keep an ale-house. He was a large, powerful man, sober, orderly, and resolute, and on no occasion was he ever deterred from doing what he conceived to be right. Although he had no other way of making a livelihood but by the profits he made on his ale, yet he never, on any occasion,