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at home. They have time to hunt and fish, to play cards and drink. 

 When they work, they work very hard, and are generally so used up, 

 both man and team, that they require rest for several days. These 

 "good fellows" often own but one hoi-se, and borrow some other "good 

 fellow's" horse to "splice a team." Their borrowings are extensive, and 

 their more intelligent, because more careful, neighboi-s lend, for the sake 

 of the poor family at home. Some people would call them lazy ; perhaps 

 this is as good a name for it as any other. They certainly do not work 

 when they can avoid it. They do not think themselves cruel. Are 

 they not? Yes, cruel in their neglect at home. The "good fellow's" 

 surroundings may be shown in three pictures. First is seen his barn, if 

 he hns a barn, with his sorry old horse mournfully contemplating the 

 chances for the coming winter. He has a house? Yes, we show a 

 corner of it, and his door yard gate. He has, perhaps, a farm, or has 

 hired a part of some richer good fellow's farm. Here is the other good 

 fellow's field gate, and himself coming home after having had a good 

 time. If too tipsy to open the gate, it will not be difficult to push it over. 



X. How to use One's Means. 



This chapter may not, perhaps, be altogether practical, except in the 

 sense of showing the impractical, and the folly of neglecting to use the 

 meens which any man may have. All cannot own fine teams ; all cannot 

 own strong teams, but every man who owns a team of any kind, should 

 keep it in a condition for labor. The man who is improvident in the 

 neglect of his farm and stock, is improvident in the underlying principle 

 upon which all else rests. Hence, the pictorial story of thrift and 

 unthrift may not come amiss; and the thrifty man who buys this book, 

 may become an angel in disguise, if he will lend it to his unthrifty neigh- 

 bor. It may be the means of mending his ways. The unthrifty man we 

 have depicted seldom sees books — ^^his family almost never, unless they be 

 loaned to them. May-be it will teach the use of means at his command, 

 to improve his condition. If so, it will be a beneficient work that will 

 give comfort to some animals, by improving their mastei's. 



All bad masters, however, are not improvident, in the sense we have 

 last shown ; but whether improvident, niggardly, selfish, cruel or brutal, 

 the amendment cannot but do good to themselves, their families, and to 

 the dumb animals under their care. The improvement will put money 

 in their pockets, because none of the vices arise from intelligence properly 

 directed, though many of them proceed from perverted intelligence. 



In preventing the growth and spread of vice, every man may increase 

 the measure of intelligent endeavor. And intelligent endeavor is always 

 the easiest road to success in any walk in life. And, again, the intelli- 

 gent treatment of brutes is not the least of the human virtues. 



