se to the door, to know what was the matter; when he found
his servants indulging in the most unbounded roars of laughter at a
couple of negro boys, who were mimicking himself in his drunken
fits!--as how he reeled and staggered--how he looked and nodded--and
hiccupped and tumbled. The pictures which these children of nature drew
of him, and which had filled the rest with such inexhaustible merriment,
struck him with so salutary a disgust, that from that night he became a
perfectly sober man, to the great joy of his wife and children.

491

From drink, with its ruin, and sorrow and sin,
I surely am safe if I never begin.

492

Pray tell me whence you derive the origin of the word dun? The true
origin of this expression owes its birth to one Joe Dunn, a famous
bailiff of the town of Lincoln, England, so extremely active, and so
dexterous at the management of his rough business, that it became a
proverb, when a man refused to pay his debts, "Why don't you Dun him?"
that is, why don't you send Dun to arrest him? Hence it grew a custom,
and is now as old as since the days of Henry VII.

--_Mulledulcia._

493

Knowledge is the hill which few may hope to climb;
Duty is the path that all may tread.

--_Lewis Morris._

494

When a minister preaches his sermon, he should do so fearlessly, i. e.
like a man who cuts up a big log,--let the chips fall where they may.

495

Do what you ought, come what may.

--_French._

496

_Duty_:--I hate to see a thing done by halves; if it be right, do it
boldly; if wrong, leave it undone.

--_Gilpin._

497

Whosoever contents himself with doing the little duties of the day,
great things will, by-and-by, present themselves to him for their
fulfilment also.

--_Howard Pyle._

498

We make time for duties we love.

--_Unknown._

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499

One should choose a wife with the ears, rather than with the eyes.

--_Spanish._

500

What is told in the ear, is often heard a hundred miles off.

--_Chinese._

501

'Tis easy for any man who has his