Finish What You Begin

Southland Times, Issue 9090, 14 December 1885, Page 4

Finish What You Begin

Many ft man's whole history, says the Journal of Agriculture, is made up of an- j finished schemes. It is the natural bent or acquired habit of altogether too large a class of people to be always beginning new schemes which sre Deverlo be finished, but abandoned When bslf finished, for other schemes that in time are to chare the same fate. Farmers are especially apt. to drop into this habit, not because they differ from other menr but because their plans ought to and generally do extend through ce^eral crops and as many year?, and too often they are abandoned as soon aa fairly commenced. In a smaller way thoush, the habit is observed. A fiel >of grass is cut and A 6trip in left in a corner because it is hard to pet at, it is to be done when the balance of the field is cot, bat it is never finished after* waTda, A few cocks of hay are not quite dry and are left, to be called for when in order, but the winter sets in.and those same bay. doo .les remajn. A field is ploughed in theJ fall to a narrow strip or two'land./they are left and perhaps the plough sticking in them until spring. A piece of brash land is cleared ' bnt a corner is left to:spoil the looks of the whole job ever after; °i.; v ■ - } Parents should.'; train their -: children ?to shun this pernicious habit of leaving things: unfinished. Base a writer in an. exchange ; My .pld;graD^9Other Knox had a way of making Her children finish their work.; >lf they^undertqok to build ..a, cob hoiise, they mast not leaye it iintil it was-done, and nos thing of work or play towhich they settheir hands.would she allow them to abandon incompleted 'I tbrnetimes 'wish I had been . treated ih^ftis Wf.r life' is pasted in i nnfirashed irork ? : Many a man nue* np his time in splendid beginriiags. The lgboor devpted to oomn)enci6.t.en things and leave JfcMuseleo "•.. and make ibeni profitable and useful. Iffinish ybtti^or^' e''^f^^t^^pP^.M^xP^ Stop beginning forty, thißgaan^jjro^ back and Haish four. Put patient, toil into ;: the mttteiViand^be^aftiurfdj^^SP)^undertaking will; yieldyonrself morepleasure and the world mor«!profi/i^ thana|dozen 'fair pi ana of which-people say,, < This man begantpbuildaiiid^wasnbtable^flMih,^^; ,