GETTING AN EARLY START.

Otago Witness, Issue 1240, 4 September 1875, Page 18

GETTING AN EARLY START.

"Perhaps you are right," said the Squire, " but the days are very short, and you want men who will fly round in a morning." — " Begging your pardon," said I, " that is precisely* what I don't want. I want a man who will work after dark at night, rather than a man who is poking round before light in a morning. When we are drawing out manure, I like to see a man fill his load at night, and have it all ready to hitch on to the first thins? in the morning. Your sluggish ' early bird ' will not do this. He will be up at 4 o'clock in the morning. He will be watching the cloiids and speculating about the weather. It will be too cold or too wet, the road will be slippery, or too rough, or there will be too little snow, or it will be drified. There will be a lion in the way, and he will have to wait until broad daylight before he can make up his mind whether to go to work or not. Finally he will get out his horses, and let them stand shivering while he fills his load. The other man, who got all ready the night before, brings out his horses cheerfully and promptly, hitches them to the load, and is oil' to the field, whistling merrily in the frosty air. He warms himself up by throwing off his load with a will, and is back again before the other has made a beginning. It is so with

everything we do. The great thiag is to get an early start." — "That is precisely what I say," broke in the Squire. — " Exactly, but you want to begin the day in the morning, while I want to begin in the evening. 'The evening and the morning were the first day.' ( Give not 3leep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids, till you have done all that you ought to do.' It is bad enough to lay abed late in a morning. It ia worse to lock up the 3table door soon after sundown, leaving the horses hastily fed and poorly groomed, that you may spend the long evening yawning over a hot stove." — American Agriculturalist.