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language and practice, to indefinite postpone- 

 ment. You will find, too late, that it has the 

 same signification in your itinerant vocabulary. 

 I once heard a motion to that effect objected to 

 by a ' new member,' on the ground that to-mor- 

 row was Sunday. In your case, there is a more 

 valid exception. To-morrow will bring with it 

 new observations to record, new inconveniences 

 to surmount, new weariness to combat, and what 

 is not worth securing to-day will have even less 

 value to-morrow. 



" Let us, then, resolutely make a clean breast 

 of it, and faithfully record the impressions of the 

 day; and depend upon it, both we and the world 

 shall be the wiser for it." 



