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ancestry, and they are never tired of informing you of that fact. 

 There is every reason for likening them, as Sir T. Overbury did, 

 to that useful esculent, the potato. They make a show, arid 

 flourish ; but the best part of them, according to their own 

 boasting, is, like the potato, buried and underground. NE. 



The Uses of Anger. 



It might at first appear well for mankind if the bee were 

 without its sting ; but upon recollection it will be found that 

 the little animal would then have too many rivals in sharing 

 its labours. A hundred other lazy animals, fond of honey and 

 hating labour, would intrude upon the sweets of the hive, and 

 the treasure would be carried off for want of armed guardians to 

 protect it. And it might at first appear well for mankind if the 

 principle of anger was not a part of our constitution. But then 

 we should be overrun with rogues. The presence of anger, 

 always ready to start forth when an injury is done or intended, 

 has the effect of suppressing much gross impudence and intoler- 

 able oppression. The sting of noble anger applied to a dastard 

 who has bullied the weak or injured the unoffending has a most 

 salutary influence in restraining him for the future, and in 

 warning his fraternity of the like punishment which is all ready 

 for them. But man should control his anger as the bee does 

 her sting. It is not to be perpetually projected on every possible 

 occasion, but to be used only when impertinence, laziness, in- 

 justice, or fraud requires. A. 



Anger Manages Everything Badly. 



When the lion is irritated, he flogs his sides with, his tail, 

 and shakes his mane. If, therefore, a traveller finds himself 

 unexpectedly in the presence of a lion, he may know the 

 animal's intentions, and take precautions accordingly. If the 

 tail does not move, the animal may be passed without fear ; but 

 under the reverse circumstances no time must be lost in seeking 

 a place of refuge, unless you are in a position to commence 

 a contest with fire-arms, and then the more prompt and deter- 

 mined your action the more successful will be the issue. The 

 fact is, that the lion by his anger deprives himself of a good 



