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INDUSTRY AMD IDLENESS. l8g
him is a tobacco-pipe * and a porter pot; the som-
niferous qualities of these two narcotics, have per-
haps contributed to close his eyes. His appear-
ance is consonant to his disposition ; hair un-
combed, collar unbuttoned, and worn-out coat,
are strong indications of negligence and sloth.
With angry eye, and cane lifted up, the master,
just entering the room, seems very well disposed
to punish his indolence and drowsiness; but these
habits are too strongly rooted to be eradicated by
chastisement.
The trophy composed of fetters, whips, and
halters, and that of the sword, mace, and gold
chains, which ornament this and the other prints
Sire perhaps rather beneath the dignity of historical
fainting, but considered as addressed to boys, and
exhibiting a view of the different terminations of
industry and sloth, are strictly proper.
* When a gentleman, whose industry and integrity have
raised him to the rank of an Alderman of London, was appren-
tice, he one Sunday afternoon took a walk with several of his
friends to Islington. Considering smoking as a very manly
accomplishment, he put a pipe in his mouth. A respecta-
ble citizen who knew hii master, meeting him in the fields,
with a very grave face accosted him as follows: " How now,
** Tom! smoking tobacco ! pray who was your teacher ? If
" you mean to be rich, unlearn it as fast as you can, for I
" never knew a man worth a guinea who stuck a pipe in his
" mouth before he was twenty." •' The d—I you did not,"
replied the boy, " then I will never smoke another." He
dashed his clay tube to the ground, and adhered to his reso-
lution.
him is a tobacco-pipe * and a porter pot; the som-
niferous qualities of these two narcotics, have per-
haps contributed to close his eyes. His appear-
ance is consonant to his disposition ; hair un-
combed, collar unbuttoned, and worn-out coat,
are strong indications of negligence and sloth.
With angry eye, and cane lifted up, the master,
just entering the room, seems very well disposed
to punish his indolence and drowsiness; but these
habits are too strongly rooted to be eradicated by
chastisement.
The trophy composed of fetters, whips, and
halters, and that of the sword, mace, and gold
chains, which ornament this and the other prints
Sire perhaps rather beneath the dignity of historical
fainting, but considered as addressed to boys, and
exhibiting a view of the different terminations of
industry and sloth, are strictly proper.
* When a gentleman, whose industry and integrity have
raised him to the rank of an Alderman of London, was appren-
tice, he one Sunday afternoon took a walk with several of his
friends to Islington. Considering smoking as a very manly
accomplishment, he put a pipe in his mouth. A respecta-
ble citizen who knew hii master, meeting him in the fields,
with a very grave face accosted him as follows: " How now,
** Tom! smoking tobacco ! pray who was your teacher ? If
" you mean to be rich, unlearn it as fast as you can, for I
" never knew a man worth a guinea who stuck a pipe in his
" mouth before he was twenty." •' The d—I you did not,"
replied the boy, " then I will never smoke another." He
dashed his clay tube to the ground, and adhered to his reso-
lution.