ss? If once you can bring yourself to believe that
it is your bounden duty to pray for God's blessing on your day's
work, you will certainly grow careful about passing such a day as
you may safely ask his blessing upon. The remark may be carried to
sports, diversions, company. A man, who once takes up the serious
use of prayer, will soon find himself obliged to abstain from such
diversions, occupations, and societies, as he can not reasonably
desire that God will bless to him; and thus he will see himself
compelled to leave off either the practice or the prayer. Now, Mr.
Bragwell, I need not ask you which of the two he that is a real
Christian will give up, sinning or praying.

Mr. Bragwell began to feel that he had not the best of the argument,
and was afraid he was making no great figure in the eyes of his
friend. Luckily, however, he was relieved from the difficulty into
which the necessity of making some answer must have brought him, by
finding they were come to the end of their little journey: and he
never beheld the bunch of grapes, which decorated the sign of the
Golden Lion, with more real satisfaction.

I refer my readers for the transactions at the Golden Lion, and for
the sad adventures which afterward befell Mr. Bragwell's family, to
the fifth part of the History of the Two Wealthy Farmers.

PART V.

THE GOLDEN LION.

Mr. Bragwell and Mr. Worthy alighted at the Golden Lion. It was
market-day: the inn, the yard, the town was all alive. Bragwell was
quite in his element. Money, company, and good cheer always set his
spirits afloat. He felt himself the principal man in the scene. He
had three great objects in view; the sale of his land; the letting
Mr. Worthy see how much he was looked up to by so many substantial
people, and the showing these people what a wise man his most
intimate friend, Mr. Worthy was. It was his way to try to borrow a
little credit from every person, and every thing he was connected
with, and by the credit to advance his interest and increase his
wealth.

The farmers met in a large room; and while they were transacting
their various concerns, those whose pursuits were the same naturally
herded together. The tanners were drawn to one corner, by the common
interest which they took in bark and hides. A useful debate was
carrying on at another little table, whether the practice of
_sowing_ wheat or of _planting_ it were most profitable. Another set
were disputing whether horses or