120 CONCLUSION. 



body knows that ; but our business is to keep 

 hard at the weeds ; we may down with 'em, 

 but look out, for they're always ready to come 

 up again, and it'll be so to the end of the 

 chapter. If any of you think you are men 

 enough to do this of yourselves, you're 

 mightily mistaken. But you're promised 

 help; and you'll find it in a book more 

 worth reading than any other, tho' it may 

 lay on your shelves and be never looked at, 

 and, if your house is untidy, be covered with 

 dust. Now what I want us all to do is, to 

 read this book just as we read the gardening 

 ones, and, while we work away in our gar- 

 dens, abide by its " calendar of operations" for 

 working at the heart. It's a shame such a 

 book should be so neglected. 



Don't read it alone ; first get a good wife, 

 if you haven't one, and while she is at work 

 read to her and your children, if you have 

 any. Don't make a task-book of it, and, 

 take my word for it, there'll be something 

 wrong in yourselves if you don't find in it 

 comfort in sorrow, support in honest poverty, 

 something to keep you humble if you are 

 prosperous, and free from pride if you are 

 successful ; something to make you careful 



