get money by an artful story, and did not know that begging was any
more dishonorable than working. How thankful ought those children to be
who are taught what is right, while so many others are taught to do wrong.

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When Jake grew older, he became very expert in learning how to frame and
tell a tale of wo, and how to assume an appearance of want. In this
country we see little of the deception practised by beggars in other
countries. The appearance of feebleness or lameness is put on, a leg is
sometimes doubled up and a wooden leg substituted for it, deafness and
blindness are assumed, and many other arts are resorted to, to move the
charitable feelings of the benevolent.

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When Jake became a man he continued to beg, assuming more and more the
appearance of misery; sometimes professing to be a soldier, or a wrecked
sailor, sometimes pretending to have lost all he had by fire, sometimes to
have been disabled by a long sickness. Sometimes he appeared to be a very
old and infirm man, but when teazed by rude boys they would learn to their
sorrow that he could run after them very rapidly, and lay his staff over
them with heavy blows; but directly would appear a feeble old man again.
Jake gained a living without work, but it was but a poor living, in
ignorance, and sin, and often in want.

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At last he came in reality to be an old man, and a fit object of charity.
Too feeble to beg, he was sent to the workhouse; he had lived but a poor
life here, and died in ignorance of the way to secure happiness in the
life to come.

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THE DUNCE CAP.

We have here a picture of Miss Judith standing on the dunce block for not
learning her lesson. She did not soon forget it, nor soon fail again to
learn her lesson. The dunce block and dunce cap are now out of fashion;
perhaps if they were more used in school, we should have fewer grown up
dunces in the world.

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THE DRUNKARD.

"The drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty, and drowsiness
shall clothe a man with rags."--Prov. xxiii. 21.

A pipe in mouth, a jug in hand,
A haggard face and pale,
A slovenly dress, a slouching gait--
These tell the drunkard's tale.

A dirty house, a weeping wife,
Children inclined to roam,
A cheerless hearth, an empty board--
These mark the drunkard's home.

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The vulgar song, the ribald j