AT A ROSE-SHOW. 2// 



informing him that the bank, in which he had placed his all, 

 proposed a dividend of fourpence in the pound. 



Warned by these rare examples against anger, avarice, 

 and despond, assured that the horses which rear, bite, kick, 

 and sulk, are seldom winners of the race, let the young 

 exhibitor now acquaint himself with his colleagues gener- 

 ally, and let him learn from them, as from men who have 

 not lived in vain amid the beauties and the bounties of a 

 garden, contentment, generosity, perseverance, hope. They 

 will tell him that the lessons of defeat will most certainly 

 teach him to conquer, if he will only learn them patiently, 

 noting his failures, and making every effort to overcome 

 them. Fighting for the prize, he resembles in one point, 

 and one only I trust, the prize-fighter — when judgment, 

 temper, self-mastery are lost, the battle is lost also. They 

 will tell him not only how to win his laurels, but how to 

 wear them gracefully ; in prosperity, as well as in adversity, 

 to preserve the equal mind. But which will be his lot to- 

 day ? The crisis approaches, and the stern mandate of the 

 peremptory police is already sounding in his ears, "This 

 tent must be cleared for t/ie Jiidgesy 



It used to be said at our flower-shows, " Oh, any one can 

 judge the Roses ;" and when, few in quantity and feeble in 



