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Fragments. — Michaelmas Day. 



Vol. III. 



manners, and principles of the children and l 

 youth who are next to come on to the stage 

 of" action. 



MONEV, 



^)ome have money and have trouble about it; 

 Some have none and are troubled without it. J 



IMPORTANCE OF WILLS. 



Those who are so lhoui.{litful and consi- 

 derate as to make their wills and to settle 

 their afiairs wiiilst in health, save them- 

 selves much anxious solicitude when afflict- 

 ed with disease ; for a bed of sickness is 

 not well adapted for such a purpose. No 

 person's life is shortened by being prepared 

 for death; but many have had their strength 

 exhausted, and their minds drawn from more 

 solenm engagemeiits, when prostrated by 

 disease, by efforts to make a final settlement 

 of their worldly concerns ; and it has often 

 under such circumstances been effected in a 

 very imperfect and unsatisfactory manner, 

 giving rise to dissension and litigation. 

 Every person should endeavor so to manage 

 his business concerns as to be prepared to 

 live in comfort, and then to live so as always 

 to be prepared to die ; for there is nothing 

 more uncertain than the continuance of the 

 life of any individual ; and of any large 

 number of persons born about the same time 

 it is found by careful observation for long 

 periods, that they fall off by death with sur- 

 prising regularity, a small per centage of 

 them dropping annually into the silent grave 

 till they are all gone. 



The paroxysms of laziness are always in- 

 creased in frequency and force by full feed- 

 ing. The most appropriate and effectual 

 remedy for it is a low diet. Providence has 

 decreed that poverty and want shall always 

 be within call of the indolent and lazy. 



PRINCIPLES. 



There is no such thing as a new princi- 

 ple ; all principles were impressed by the 

 hand of Omnipotence in the beginning of 

 time. A person may discover or invent a 

 new application of a principle, but the prin- 

 ciple itself must be as old as the creation of 

 matter. 



UNFINISHED WORK. 



Children or young people should not be 

 permitted to acquire a habit of beginning 

 things, and then leave them in an unfinished 

 state. Man}' have found great difficulty in 

 overcoming this pernicious habit in after 

 life. 



CONVENIENCE AND ECONOMY. 



It should not be forgotten that convenience 

 and the economy of time are often the result 



of attention to the arrangement of things ap- 

 parently of little importance. 



EARLY INSTRUCTION. 



To instil into children a love of finery, and 

 to pamper their appetites in early life, and 

 when they have grown up to complain of 

 their being fops and gluttons, savors much 

 of inconsistency. Solomon said, " Traia 

 up a child in the way he should go." 



ORDER. 



Let every thing be done in order and in 

 the right season, and you will never be in- 

 clined to deny the truth that " There is a 

 time for all things." 



It is a vain thing to help those who won't 

 help themselves. 



Those who suffer their grounds to be 

 seeded with weeds permit thieves to be par- 

 takers of their substance. 



Useful knowledge can have no enemies 

 except the ignorant ; it cherishes youth, de- 

 lights the aged, is an ornament in prosperity, 

 and yields comlbrt in adversity. 



He that would make a real progress in 

 knowledge, must dedicate his age, as well 

 as his youth, at the altar of truth. 



It is a common fault to be never satisfied 

 with our fortune, nor dissatisfied with our 

 understanding. 



Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of 

 all parasites, for she frequents the poor man's 

 hut, as well as the mansions of the rich. 



For tlie Farmers' Cabinet. 

 Origin of eatiug Goose ou ]>licliaelmas 



Being the feast of St. Michael tiie archangel, held on the 



29lh of September. 



Queen Elizabeth, on her way to Tilbury 

 fort, on the 29th of September, 1589, dined 

 at the ancient seat of Sir N. Umfreville, 

 near that place ; and as British Eess had 

 much rather dine on a high seasoned and 

 substantial dish than on a simple fricassee 

 or ragout, the knight thought proper to pro- 

 vide a brace of fine geese, to suit the palate 

 of his royal guest. After the queen had 

 dined heartily, she asked for a half-pint 

 bumper of burgundy, and drank " Destruc- 

 tion to the Spanish Armada." She had hut 

 that moment returned th(> glass to the knight, 

 who had done the honors of the table, 

 when the news came (as if the queen had 

 been possessed of the spirit of prophecy) 

 that tlie Spanish fleet had been destroyed by 

 a storm. She immediately took another 

 bumper, in order to digest the goose and 

 good news ; and was so much pleased with, 

 tlie event, that every year after, on that day,i 

 she had the above excellent dish served up. 



