THE BLACKSMITH 



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children on in a course that has been productive of 

 his own ruin. It is a sad thing for a country to see 

 the seeds of vice ready to spread and waft in all 

 directions : to calculate that the nuisance of old 

 Bullwaist is to be the lot of many parts Bullwaist 

 is a bad man. It is one of his boasts that he never 

 goes to church, and we never knew one who so 

 boasted that was to be trusted. 



Parents should bear this fact in mind, that there is 

 no occupation or employment in life in which the 

 character of themselves is not inquired into with 



regard to their children. If the parents are honest, 

 steady, respectable people, there will be every reason 

 to believe that their children will be the same, at all 

 events the world will take them on credit as such, but 

 if parents are notorious wrongdoers, the evil of their 

 reputation will attach to their children, and be serious 

 impediments to their worldly advancement. 



We may also add, though we have no desire unduly 

 to stigmatize a class, that few people are fond of 

 engaging with those who are connected with beer- 

 shops. " Inn " service is generally considered bad 

 enough, but bold must be the man who tackles with 



