into some active pursuit, or collect some stock of knowledge, heavy and wearisome indeed must be the years of old age.

In the joyful days of youth and the height of health and strength, even trifles may please, and become interesting from the warmth of our imagination and the gaiety of our ideas; but with grey hairs come infirmities, and infirmities force rereflection, and dreary, dark, and unsubstantial is the retrospect of past pleasures, unless they are dignified by some circumstance that rendered them beneficial.

Let me therefore entreat you, my youthful readers, to imitate the bee and the ant, who in the summer provide a store for winter;-in the spring of your youth acquire a stock of knowledge and prudence to satisfy and support the autumn and: winter of your age.

Observe

Observe exact order in the disposal of your time-devote regular hours for study, for business, for active amusement, for the duties you owe society, and most particularly for those you owe your Creator. By a proper regulation you will find constant employment, and pass your days agreeably and usefully, in a manner honourable to yourself and to the glory of God.

Norbury. Printer,

Breuord

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