"little book" is dated July 1, 1733.--W. T. F.

_Form of the pages._

TEMPERANCE.

EAT NOT TO DULLNESS.
DRINK NOT TO ELEVATION.
+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+
| TEMPERANCE. |
+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+
| EAT NOT TO DULLNESS. |
| DRINK NOT TO ELEVATION. |
+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+
| | S. | M. | T. | W. | T. | F. | S. |
+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+
| T. | | | | | | | |
+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+
| S. | * | * | | * | | * | |
+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+
| O. | ** | * | * | | * | * | * |
+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+
| R. | | | * | | | * | |
+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+
| F. | | * | | | * | | |
+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+
| I. | | | * | | | | |
+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+
| S. | | | | | | | |
+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+
| J. | | | | | | | |
+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+
| M. | | | | | | | |
+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+
| C. | | | | | | | |
+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+
| T. | | | | | | | |
+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+
| C. | | | | | | | |
+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+

I determined to give a week's strict attention to each of the virtues
successively. Thus, in the first week, my great guard was to avoid
every the least offense against _Temperance_, leaving the other
virtues to their ordinary chance, only marking every evening the
faults of the day. Thus, if in the first week I could keep my first
line, marked T, clear of spots, I suppos'd the habit of that virtue so
much strengthen'd, and its opposite weaken'd, that I might venture
extending my attention to include the next, and for the following week
keep both lines clear of spots. Proceeding thus to the last, I could
go thro' a course compleat in thirteen weeks, and four courses in a
year. And like him who, having a garden to weed, does not attempt to
eradicate all the bad herbs at once, which would exceed his reach and
his strength, but works on one of the beds at a time, and, having
accomplish'd the first, proceeds to a second, so I should have, I
hoped, the encouragin