EARNING PLEASURES. 85 



ly willing to supply his son with all the money that he 

 could judiciously use, and Lawrence had full authority to 

 furnish John with whatever he thought was judicious. But 

 they both had the good sense to know that a boy enjoys 

 any acquisition that he may make much more, and feels a 

 more real and substantial sense of property in it, if he has 

 done something to earn it himself by some kind of effort, 

 or sacrifice, or self-denial. A father who supplies his son 

 freely and thoughtlessly with all the money that he wants 

 acts very unphilosophically. He is as unphilosophical as 

 he would be in thinking that it would do just as well to 

 give his boy money to buy fish of a vendor going by, as to 

 let him take his rod and line and go a fishing himself to 

 catch them. 



