By fearing to attempt.

--_Shakespeare._

484

THE ORPHAN BOY'S DREAM.

The room is old--the night is cold,--
But night is dearer far than day;
For then, in dreams, to him it seems
That she's returned who's gone away!
His tears are pass'd--he clasps her fast,--
Again she holds him on her knee;
And, in his sleep, he murmurs deep,
"Oh! mother, go no more from me!"

485

_Dreams._--Children of night, of indigestion bred.

--_Churchill._

486

We sacrifice to dress, till household joys
And comforts cease. Dress drains our cellar dry,
And keeps our larder lean; puts out our fires,
And introduces hunger, frost and woe,
Where peace and hospitality might have reign'd.

--_Cowper._

487

Those who think that in order to dress well, it is necessary to dress
extravagantly or grandly, make a great mistake. Nothing so well becomes
true feminine beauty as simplicity.

No real happiness is found
In trailing purple o'er the ground.

--_Geo. D. Prentice._

488

_Numbers vi, 3._--"He shall separate himself from wine and strong
drink."

A heathen king, who had been for years confirmed in the sin of
drunkenness by the evil practices of white men on the Sandwich Islands,
had been led to forsake the dreadful habit. He said lately to a
missionary, "suppose you put four thousand dollars in one hand, and a
glass of rum in the other; you say, you drink this rum, I give you four
thousand dollars, I no drink it; you say you kill me, I no drink it."

489

THE RIGHT ANSWER.

In an address to a temperance society, Admiral Capps told a story which
is printed in the New York _Tribune_.--A man who had ruined his health
with alcohol sat looking sadly at his wife, to whom he had made many
promises of reform.

"Jenny," he said, "you are a clever woman, a courageous, good woman. You
should have married a better man than I am."

She looked at him, thin-limbed and stoop-shouldered, prematurely old,
and answered, quietly, "I did, James."

490

_Genesis ix, 21_--"Noah drank of the wine, and was drunken."

A person in Maryland, who was addicted to drunkenness, hearing a
considerable uproar in his kitchen one night, felt the curiosity to step
without noi