kfast in his room, and was
served by a slave. Mr. Phillips spoke to him as an Abolitionist, but the
waiter seemed to be more concerned about the breakfast than about
himself. Finally Mr. Phillips told him to go away, saying that he could
not bear to be waited upon by a slave.

The other remonstrated: "Scuse me, massa, but I's obliged to stay yere,
'cause I's 'sponsible fo' de silverware."

1510

MY FIRST PATIENT.

A lady sent for me in haste to come and see,
What her condition for a cure might be.
Dear me! a patient--what a happy tone,
To have a patient, and one all my own--
To have a patient and myself be feed,
Raised expectations very high indeed--
I saw a practice growing from the seed.

--_Wm. Tod Helmuth._

1511

Fretting is the doctor's best friend all over the whole world.

1512

Temperance and toil are the two real physicians of mankind.

1513

The purse of the patient frequently, alas! protracts his cure.

--_Zimmerman._

1514

Physic, for the most part, is nothing else but the substitute of
exercise and temperance.

--_Addison._

1515

To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

1516

The thirsty earth soaks up the rain
And drinks and gaps for drink again;
The plants suck in the earth, and are
With constant drinking fresh and fair.

--_A. Cowley._

1517

THE BREVITY OF PLEASURES.

Pleasures are like poppies spread,
You seize the flower, its bloom is shed;
Or, like the snow-fall in the river,
A moment white, then melts forever.

--_Burns: Tam O'Shanter._

1518

There is a certain dignity to be kept up in pleasures as well as in
business.

1519

The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to
have it found out by accident.

--_Charles Lamb._

1520

To make pleasures pleasant, shorten them.

--_Buxton._

1521

Pleasures make folks acquainted with each other, but it takes trials and
griefs to make them know each other.

1522

Our sweetest pleasures--oft
Are in our memories.

1523

A man would have but litt