How to keep a decent shred of the old sanctification on the modern Sabbath-day is the anxious inquiry of many fathers and mothers among us.

My friend with her manly-minded boy, and Mr.Meditation with little Think-well had no trouble in that matter.
'And once I said, As I remember, looking round upon those rocks And hills on which we all of us were born, That God who made the Great Book of the world Would bless such piety;-- Never did worthier lads break English bread: The finest Sunday that the autumn saw, With all its mealy clusters of ripe nuts, Could never keep those boys away from church, Or tempt them to an hour of Sabbath breach, Leonard and James!' Think-well and that mother's son.
Old Mr.Meditation, the father, was sprung of a poor but honest and industrious stock in the city.

He had not had many talents or opportunities to begin with, but he had made the very best of the two he had.

And then, when the two estates of Mr.Fritter-day and Mr.Let-good- slip were sequestered to the crown, the advisers of the crown handed over those two neglected estates to Mr.Meditation to improve them for the common good, and after him to his son, whose name we know.

The steps of a good man are ordered of the Lord, and He delighteth in his way.