nt, walk a mile! How
many to cut down expenses, cut off a thousand of the little "filling
ins" which go to make us both happy and healthy! Jones refused to let
his little boy run an errand for Johnson, and when Jones's house was in
a blaze, Johnson forbid him touching his water to put it out. Smith by
accident ran his wagon afoul of Peppers's cart, Peppers in revenge "cut
away" at Smith's horse; horse ran away, broke the wagon, dislocated
Smith's collar-bone; a suit at law followed, and Peppers being a mighty
spunky, as well as a powerfully mean man, fought it out four years, and
finally sunk every cent he had in the world by the slight transaction.
It is a first-rate idea to be economical, but the man who sees and
feels, and smells and tastes, entirely through his pocket-book, isn't
worth cultivating an acquaintance with. Go in, marry money if you can,
save up some, but don't cultivate meanness, for it never pays.

"Taking Down" a Sheriff.

Ex-honorable John Buck, once the "representative" of a _district_ out
West, a lawyer originally, and finally a gentleman at large, and Jeremy
Diddler generally, took up his quarters in Philadelphia, years ago, and
putting himself upon his dignity, he managed for a time, _sans
l'argent_, to live like a prince. Buck was what the world would call a
devilish clever fellow; he was something of a scholar, with the
smattering of a gentleman; good at off-hand dinner table oratory, good
looking, and what never fails to take down the ladies, he wore hair
enough about his countenance to establish two Italian grand dukes. Buck
was "an awful blower," but possessed common-sense enough not to waste
his _gas_-conade--ergo, he had the merit not to falsify to ye ancient
falsifiers.

The Honorable Mr. Buck's _manner_ of living not being "seconded" by a
corresponding manner of _means_, he very frequently ran things in the
ground, got in debt, head and heels. The Honorable Mr. B. had patronized
a dealer in Spanish mantles, corduroys and opera vests, to the amount of
some two hundred dollars; and, very naturally, ye fabricator of said
cloth appurtenances for ye body, got mad towards the last, and
threatened "the Western member" with a course of legal sprouts, unless
he "showed cause," or came up and squared the yards. As Hon. John Buck
had had frequent invitations to pursue such courses, and not being
spiritually or personally inclined that way, he let the notice slide.

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