something useful; this leisure the diligent man will obtain, but the lazy man never; so that, "A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things." Do you imagine that sloth will afford you more comfort than labour? No. Troubles spring from idleness, and grievous toils from needless ease; many would live without labour by their own wits only; but they break for want of stock. Industry, however, gives comfort, and plenty, and respect. "Fly pleasures and they'll follow you; "the diligent spinner has a large web;" and, “now I have a sheep and a cow, everbody bids me good morrow.” But with our industry, we must likewise be steady, and settled, and careful, and oversee our own affairs with our own eyes, and not trust too much to others; for, "I never saw an oft-removed tree, Nor yet an oft-removed family, That throve so well as those that settled be." 66 5. "Three removes are as bad as a fire;" Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee; ""If you would have your business done, go; if not, send." The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands; “Want of care does us more damage than want of knowledge;' "Not to oversee workmen is to leave them your purse open." Trusting too much to others' care is the ruin of many; for, "In the affairs of the world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it;" but a man's own care is profitable; for "Learning is to the studious, and riches to the careful, as well as power to the bold, and heaven to the virtuous." "If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself." "A little neglect may breed great mischief;" and "For want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost; being overtaken and slain by the enemy, all for want of care about a horse shoe nail." 6. So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality, if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, 'keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a groat at last." "A fat kitchen makes a lean will," and 66 66 Many estates are spent in the getting, Since women for tea forsook spinning and knitting, And men for beer forsook hewing and splitting." "If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as of getting the Indians have not made Spain rich,2 because her outgoes are greater than her incomes." : Away, then, with your expensive follies, and you will not have much cause to complain of hard times, heavy taxes, and chargeable families. 7. Farther, "What maintains one vice would bring up two children." You may think, perhaps, that a little wine, or a little beer now and then, diet a little more costly, clothes a little finer, and a little entertainment now and then, can be no great matter; but remember that "Many a little makes a mickle." "Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship;" "Who dainties love shall beggars prove;" and, moreover, "Fools make feasts, and wise men eat them." Remember what poor Richard says, "Buy what thou hast no need of, and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessaries." And again, "At a great pennyworth pause a while." He means, that perhaps the cheapness is apparent only and not real; or the bargain, by straitening thee in thy business, may do thee more harm than good. Many have been ruined by buying good pennyworths. Again, it is foolish to lay our money in a purchase of repentance; and yet this folly is practised every day. Wise men learn by others' harms, fools scarcely by their own. Many a one, for the sake of finery on his back, has gone with a hungry belly, and half starved his family. Silk and satins, scarlet and velvets, put out the kitchen fire. These are not the necessaries of life, they can scarcely be called the conveniences; and yet only because they look pretty, how many want to have them ? The artificial wants of mankind thus become more numerous than the natural, and for one poor person there are a hundred indigent. By these and other extravagances the genteel are reduced to poverty, and forced to borrow of those whom they formerly despised, who, through industry and frugality, have maintained their standing. In this case it appears plainly that “ A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees." Perhaps they have had a small estate left them, which they knew not the getting of; they think it is day and will never be night; that a little to be spent out of so much is not worth minding. A child and a fool imagine twenty shillings and twenty years can never be spent; but by always taking out of the meal tub, and never putting in, you soon come to the bottom. Then, "When the well is dry they know the worth of water." But this If you they might have known before, if they had taken advice. would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some; for he that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing: and, indeed, so does he that lends to such people, when he goes to get it in again. On wheels of light, on wings of flame, The glorious hosts of Zion came; High heaven with songs of triumph rung, While thus they struck their harps and sung: "O Zion! lift thy raptured eye, "See! Mercy, from her golden urn, "He comes to cheer the trembling heart,- "O Zion! lift thy raptured eye, The Prince of Salem comes to reign!" COLLECTING SEA-BIRDS' EGGS.-TANDON. 1. COLLECTING eggs forms a branch of considerable industry in many countries. The poor inhabitants of the Faroe Isles1 feed on the eggs of almost all the waterfowl which frequent their shores. They eat the young chicks also, and the parent birds when they can manage to catch them. They will hang by a rope at the peril of their lives, or climb the perpendicular sides of the rocks, or walk along the narrowest ledges, on which the birds make their nests. In this perilous position one false step must be inevitable death, and every year many of the Faroese fall victims to this dangerous sport. 2. This pursuit may be carried on without danger in a canoe. The fowler takes a conical-shaped net, not unlike those used to catch butterflies, but it is woven of wool, and consequently stronger. As these birds are not wild they suffer themselves to be approached; the net is thrown over their heads, and they are entangled in it, and easily caught. In this way birds swimming on the surface of the water, or fishing on the rocks, can be seized with equal facility. 3. But the greatest number of birds are to be found on the craggy points of the steep rock. In order to reach these, parties of at least four men set out together. One armed with a pole, at the end of which is a small horizontal shelf, pushes his companion up to the level of a ledge, and he then hoists him up with a rope. There they seize the birds as they are brooding, or catch them with the nets as they fly off their nests. They then kill K them and throw them to the men below, who stand ready in a boat under the cliff. In this way they go from point to point, and often in a few hours catch hundreds of birds. 4. The most profitable, though the most dangerous of all methods, is the following:-The fowlers provide themselves with a cable two inches thick and 600 or 1,200 feet long, on which is fastened a kind of seat. A beam is placed at the edge of the rock to prevent the rope being cut by the rough stone. The birdtaker (fugelmand) is let down by six other men, and holds a small cord in his hand, by means of which he can make certain signs agreed upon and understood by his comrades. It requires a peculiar skill to prevent the cable being twisted, and turning the man round and round, by which he would be knocked and bruised against the rocks. The fugelmand on reaching a ledge lets go the cord, ties it to any convenient projection, and kills as many birds as possible, catching them in his net or seizing them with his hand. If he should spy a hollow or a niche beyond his reach, where many waterfowl are perched, he sits down again on his little plank and jerks the rope, so as to give an oscillation of sometimes as much as one hundred feet, and thus swings himself to the spot he wishes to explore. 5. It is said that in one little rocky islet of the Faroe group as many as 2,400 sea parrots are caught every year. The governors of the Isle of Texel' have the exclusive right to all the eggs taken there, but they pay a considerable sum to secure this monopoly. It is asserted that 300 or 400 eggs of the silver gull alone are gathered every day. After St. John's Day1 no more eggs may be taken, the birds being allowed to hatch in peace any they may lay after that period. Naumann says that 50,000 eggs of the large gulls are collected annually in the little island of Sylt, and quite as many of smaller species and of sea swallows. Among the larger eggs there are at least 10,000 of the silver gull. 5 6. The men are engaged in collecting these eggs from eight in the morning till late at night. They receive in payment the eggs of all the smaller kinds of birds." 7. The fulmar is to the inhabitants of St. Kilda the most precious production of their island. The bird-nesters risk their lives to take these birds. Two men generally go together; one firmly tied round the waist with a thick cord is let down by th other to some steep rock thickly peopled with fulmars. He collects all the eggs and birds he can, and is then drawn up by his companion. The dexterity of these men is very great, and the |