16 JONAS hobson's advice 
school. Here he gets together wicked 
people ; who draw in poor lads, and teach 
them to curse and to swear ; to go after 
cock-fights and barrels of beer ; and to 
neglect both their business and their church. 
Good Lord ! I often wonder the earth does 
not open and swallow them up \ as you read 
in the Bible it once swallowed up some 
Wicked people. 
" I have often, my dear sons, warned you 
against these vile houses ; and I believe you 
have yet never frequented them. But I am 
now going to leave you. What temptations 
you may afterwards meet with, God knows ; 
but, I hope, ray dying words will sink deep 
into you. Depend upon it, these bad 
houses are the beginning of all wickedness. 
Many a poor lad might have done well, if 
he had not been drawn into these wicked 
places. 
» Look at those, I beseech you, who 
frequent them. You will always find them 
idle proHigate people; esteemed by nobody, 
and doing good to nobody ; suffering their 
poor families, if they have any, to grow up 
in raais and nastiness, 
