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is only begun wlien his school days are ended. To complete it 

 will be the aim and ambition of his life. Let his calling be 

 what it may, with an insatiable desire for knowledge, he will 

 find leisure for self -improvement. The many instances of self- 

 educated men whose eminence and success are due to an early 

 taste for reading, should be given to the boys who are just 

 entering the active pursuits of life, and who are so apt to think 

 that they can no longer find time for self-culture. But is the 

 little leisure they have well improved? Should the evenings 

 be idled away, because the days must be occupied with business 

 or labor? The youth whose teachers have trained them to 

 alwaj's have a good book at hand for odd moments, will enter 

 the practical callings of life with a habit of inestimable import- 

 ance. 



