hat his evil
pursuits and incorrigible wickedness are the subjects of their
discourse. The waterman significantly directs his attention to a figure
on a gibbet, as emblematical of his future fate, should he not turn from
the evil of his ways; and the boy shows him a cat-o'-nine-tails,
expressive of the discipline that awaits him on board of ship; these
admonitions, however, he notices only by the application of his fingers
to his forehead, in the form of horns, jestingly telling them to look at
Cuckold's Point, which they have just passed; he then throws his
indentures into the water with an air of contempt, that proves how
little he is affected by his present condition, and how little he
regards the persuasions and tears of a fond mother, whose heart seems
ready to burst with grief at the fate of her darling son, and perhaps
her only stay; for her dress seems to intimate that she is a widow. Well
then might Solomon say, that "a foolish son is the heaviness of his
mother;" for we here behold her who had often rejoiced in the prospect
of her child being a prop to her in the decline of life, lamenting his
depravity, and anticipating with horror the termination of his evil
course. One would naturally imagine, from the common course of things,
that this scene would have awakened his reflection, and been the means
of softening the ruggedness of his disposition,--that some tender ideas
would have crossed his mind and melted the obduracy of his heart; but he
continues hardened and callous to every admonition.

The group of figures composing this print has been copied by the
ingenious Lavater; with whose appropriate remarks we conclude our
present description. "Observe," says this great analyst of the human
countenance, "in the annexed group, that unnatural wretch, with the
infernal visage, insulting his supplicating mother; the predominant
character on the three other villain-faces, though all disfigured by
effrontery, is cunning and ironical malignity. Every face is a seal with
this truth engraved on it: 'Nothing makes a man so ugly as vice; nothing
renders the countenance so hideous as villainy.'"

[Illustration: INDUSTRY AND IDLENESS.

PLATE 5.

THE IDLE 'PRENTICE TURNED AWAY AND SENT TO SEA.]

INDUSTRY AND IDLENESS.

PLATE VI.

THE INDUSTRIOUS 'PRENTICE OUT OF HIS TIME, AND MARRIED TO HIS MASTER'S
DAUGHTER.

"The virtuous woman is a crown to her husband." Proverbs, chap.
xiii. verse 4.

The rew