ADVICE TO A YOUNG MAN.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XII, Issue 12, 11 July 1884, Page 11

ADVICE TO A YOUNG MAN.

And, then remember, my son, you have to work. Whether you handle a pick or a pen, wheelbarrow, or a set of books, digging ditches or editing a paper, ringing an auction bell, or writing funny things, you must work. If you look around you, son, yon will see that the men who are the most able to live the rest of their daya without work are the men who worked the hardest when they were young. Do not be afraid of killing yourself with work, son. It is beyond your power to do that. Men cannot work so hard as that on the sunny side of thirty. They die sometimes, but it is because they qoit work at 9 p.m., and don't get home until 2 a.m. It is the interval that killß, my son.— -The work gives you an appetite for your meals; it lends solidity to your slumbers ; and it also gives you a perfect appreciation of a holiday. There are young men that do not work, my son ; but the world is not proud of them. It does not know their names, even ; it simply speaks of them as old so-and-so's boys. — Nobody likes them ; nobody hates them ; the great busy world does not even know that they are there. So find out what you want to be and do, eon, and take ofiE your coat and make a dust in the world. The busier you are the less deviltry you will be apt to get into, the sweeter will be your sleep, the brighter and happier your holidays, and the better satisfied the world will be with yoa.—JTamkeyo.