Hunting. Merry it is in the good green wood, When the mavis and merle are singing; When the deer sweeps by, and the hounds are in cry, Husband. Ladies sometimes do not value their husbands as they ought. They sometimes learn the value of a good husband for the first time by the loss of him. Yet the husband is the very roof-tree of the house-the corner-stone of the edificethe key-stone of that arch called home. He is the breadwinner of the family-its defence and its glory-the beginning and ending of the golden chain of life which surrounds it— its consoler, its lawgiver, and its king. And yet we see how frail is that life on which so much depends. How frail is the life of the husband and the father! When he is taken away, who shall fill his place? When he is sick, what gloomy clouds hover over the house! When he is dead, what darkness, weeping, agony! Then poverty, like the murderous assassin, breaks in at the window-starvation, like a famished wolf, howls at the door. of sackcloth and ashes. lation and woe. Widowhood is too often an associate E Foleness. The idle man is an annoyance-a nuisance. He is of no benefit to anybody-he is an intruder in the busy thoroughfare of every-day life—he stands in our path, and we push him contemptuously aside !—he is of no advantage to anybody -he annoys busy men-he makes them unhappy-he is a unit in society-he may have an income to support him in idleness, or he may "sponge" on good-natured friends but in either case he is despised. I The dead sea, that swallows all virtues; and the selfmade sepulchre of a living man.— -Quarles. Ecicles. Nature's pendants, manufactured from gems of the purest water. Egnorance. Ignorance is the curse of God; Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven. Shakespere. The sum total of human knowledge. El-Temper. An irritable man lies like a hedgehog rolled up the way, tormenting himself with his own prickles.-Hood. Emagination. wrong By imagination, we understand a creating power possessed by the mind, enabling it to form numberless ideas, which are not the immediate result of external impressions, or of recollection. By the imagination every man creates thoughts: they are entirely his own, and they might never have existed had they not have occurred to his individual mind. It is by force of imagination that certain images, fancies, and conceits frequently present themselves, although they may not be authorized by reason, nor have any prototype in nature. These sometimes die away, like visions of the night, answering no permanent purpose. Sometimes they may suggest ideas which may lead to corresponding experiments, and terminate in realities, or amid the wilds of conjecture; they often furnish hints which the judgment knows how to improve, in useful plans and consistent theories. – That power which can create without substance, paint without colour, and kill without crime. The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Empertinence. Receive no satisfaction for premeditated impertinence ; forget it, forgive it, but keep him inexorably at a distance who offered it.-Lavater. Endependence. This is often but a want of sympathy with others. There was a certain merchant sojourning at an inn, whom the boots, by mistake, called betimes in the morning. “Sir," said the boots, "the day is breaking." The merchant turned round with a grim look—“Let it break," growled he, “it owes me nothing." This anecdote shows the difference between selfishness and independence.—Bulwer. If any man can do without the world, it is certain the world can do quite as well without him.-Hazlitt. - To catch dame Fortune's golden smile, And gather gear by ev'ry wile Nor for a train-attendant; Of being independent.-Burns. Endolence. None so little enjoy life, and are such burdens to themselves, as those who have nothing to do. Endustry. There is no art or science that is too difficult for industry to attain to; it is the gift of tongues, and makes a man understood and valued in all countries and by all nations; it is the philosopher's stone, that turns all metals, and even stones, into gold, and suffers not want to break into its dwelling; it is the north-west passage, that brings the merchant's ship to him as soon as he can desire. In a word, it conquers all enemies, and makes fortune itself pay contribution.-Clarendon. -The distinguishing quality of our nation, the pervading genius of our riches, our grandeur, and our power.—Bulwer. Endustry. The Ant. These emmets, how little they are in our eyes! Yet as wise as we are, if sent to their school, They don't wear their time out in sleeping or play, And for winter they lay up their stores; They manage their work in such regular forms, One would think they foresaw all the frosts and the storms, But I have less sense than a poor creeping ant, When death and old age shall stare in my face, Now, now, while my strength and my youth are in bloom, Let me read in good books, and believe, and obey, Enfancy. What is Infancy? The balm From honey'd flowers-ocean's calm- A dew-drop in a lily's cup See YOUTH, MANHOOD, AGE. Engratitude. The abridgment of all baseness. —A fault never found unattended with other viciousness. Ingratitude, thou marble-hearted fiend More hideous when thou show'st thee in a child Filial ingratitude! Is it not as the mouth should tear the hand Enk. The coloured slave that waits upon Thought. A drop of ink may make a million think.-Byron. Ennocence. To dread no eye, and to suspect no tongue, is the great prerogative of innocence. There is no courage but in innocence; No constancy but in an honest cause. Enstruction. Hast thou e'er seen a garden clad In all the robes that Eden had; Or vale o'erspread with streams and trees, A paradise of mysteries; Plains with green hills adorning them, |