goods, not being able to guide it so handily as I did the other, it overset, and threw me and all my cargo into the water. As for myself, it was no great harm, for I was near the shore; but as to my cargo, it was a great part of it lost, especially the iron, which I thought would have been of great use to me. However, when the tide was out, I got most of the pieces of cable ashore and some of the iron, though with infinite labor, for I had to dive for it into the water, a work which fatigued me very much. After this, I went every day on board and brought could get.

away what I

I had now been thirteen days on shore, and had been eleven times on board the ship, in which time I had brought away all that one pair of hands could well be supposed capable of bringing; though I believe, verily, had the calm weather held, I should have brought away the whole ship, piece by piece; but preparing the twelfth time to go on board, I found the wind began to rise. However, I went on board at low water, and though I thought I had rummaged the cabin so effectually that nothing more could be found, I discovered a locker with drawers in it, in one of which I found two or three razors and one pair of large scissors, with ten or a dozen good knives and forks; in another I found about thirty-six pounds' value in money.

I smiled to myself at the sight of money. "Oh, drug!" said I aloud, "what art thou good for?

Thou art not worth to me, no, not the taking off the ground. One of those knives is worth the whole heap. I have no manner of use for thee!"

MEMORY GEMS

A cunning man overreaches no one half so much as himself. BEECHER.

But when men think they most in safety stand,
Their greatest peril often is at hand.

- DRAYTON.

Two things indicate a weak mind, -to be silent when it is proper to speak, and to speak when it is proper to be silent.

PERSIAN PRoverb.

Be still, sad heart, and cease repining;
Behind the cloud is the sun still shining.

- LONGFELLOW.

Let not one look of Fortune cast you down;
She were not Fortune if she did not frown.

ORRERY.

In the lexicon of youth, which fate reserves
For a bright manhood, there's no such word as fail.

- BULWER.

He that will only believe what he can fully comprehend, must have a very long head or a very short creed. . COLTON.

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To most men experience is like the stern light of a ship, which illumines only the track it has passed.

-COLERIDGE.

A man will confess his faults, but never his follies.

CHESTERFIELD.

Kind hearts are gardens,
Kind thoughts are roots,
Kind words are blossoms,
Kind deeds are fruits;
Love is the sweet sunshine

That warms into life,
For only in darkness

Grow hatred and strife.

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward offered, for they are gone for

Sin has many tools, but a lie is a handle that fits them all. HOLMES.

There's always a river to cross,
Always an effort to make,
If there's anything good to win,
Any rich prize to take;

Yonder's the fruit we crave,

Yonder the charming scene;

But deep and wide, with a troubled tide,
Is the river that lies between.

He liveth long who liveth well,
All else is life but flung away;
He liveth longest who can tell

Of true things truly done each day.

The longest life is but a parcel of moments.

Profanity never did any man the least good. No man is richer, happier, or wiser for it. It recommends no one to society; it is disgusting to refined people and abominable to the good.

An idler is a watch that wants both hands,
As useless if it goes as when it stands.

Oh, many a shaft at random sent,
Finds mark the archer little meant!
And many a word at random spoken,
May soothe, or wound, a heart that's broken.

- SCOTT.

Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy; and he who rises late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night, while laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him. FRANKLIN.

God helps them that help themselves. — FRANKLIN.

Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand. HALE.

Never chase a lie; let it alone, and it will run itself to death.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds. - CERVANTES.

Immodest words admit of no defense,
For want of decency is want of sense.

ROSCOMMON.

Of all bad things by which mankind are cursed,
Their own bad tempers surely are the worst.

- CUMBERLAND.

He who is good at making excuses is seldom good for anything else. - FRANKLIN.

All that a man gets by lying is that he is not believed when he tells the truth.

Waste of wealth is sometimes retrieved, waste of health seldom; but waste of time never.

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes a necessity.

— ST. AUGUSTINE.

To err is human; to forgive, divine. — POPE.

We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.- ALGER.

One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.-Bulwer.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything. -JOHNSON.