Early sow, early mow.

LESSON I.

He who loves to read will make speed.

Bend not, mend not.

Grasp all, lose all.

To live well is to die well.

Every day make some hay.

He who cannot read is blind indeed.

A good book is a fast friend.

Waste not, want not.

Do as you would be done by.

Learn soon, learn late, learn any time.

Reading is the key which opens earth and heaven.
Love what you read and you will learn with speed.
A wise now makes a happy hereafter.

A good book in a warm bright nook

Is a happy lot for which to look.

He who steals a pin will steal a greater thing.

EXERCISES* TO LESSON I.

If you sow early you will mow early. He who steals little will steal much. They who wish to die in peace must learn to

* The teacher is to aid the learner to read, as well as to understand, these Exercises. The exercises are given merely as specimens. Similar exercises should be formed by teacher and learner, as they proceed through the volume. The learner should very soon procure a good English Dictionary. See the titles and prices of several in the author's work, entitled "Self-Culture: a Practical Answer to the Questions 'What to Learn?' 'How to Learn?" "When to Learn ?"" Price 5s., to be had of any bookseller.

obey God. Let no day pass without your doing some good Sad is the lot of such as are unable to read. Are you wise now? Then you will be happy in the time to come. I have many books, and so I have many friends. If you would not want you must not waste. Would men do to others as they wish to be done by the world would go on much better than it does. He who can read may in time know all things that can be known. Love makes reading, as well as all other things, easy. A bright hearth and a pleasant book are a sweet reward of a day's toil.

LESSON II.

Waste makes want.

Health is better than wealth.

No pains, no gains.

Win it and wear it.

When the cat is away the mice will play.

Well-begun is half done.

Want makes strife twixt man and wife.

Use legs and have legs.

A stitch in time saves nine.

Talk much, err much.

Speak what you will

Bad men will take it ill. Wisely spend and God will send.

Be as you would seem to be.

A fool and his money are soon parted.

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

EXERCISES TO LESSON II.

If you do not use your legs you will lose your legs. When poverty comes in at the door love flies out at the window, leaving husband and wife to disagree and suffer. Much talk, little sense. The best of words may be made a bad use of. God provides for those who obey his will. Do not risk the good you have in rashly seeking greater good; bear in mind the wail- "I was well; I would be better; and so here I am in the ditch." It is mean to try to make others think you are better than you really are. Of what good is wealth to a man who has lost his health? If you take pains you will make gains; but if you waste what you have you will soon have nothing to waste.

LESSON III.

Safe bind, safe find.

Saving is getting.

Pay as you go, you'll keep from woe.
The back and the belly keep every one busy.
Better well done than twice done.

Say-well and do-well end with one letter;
Say-well is good but do-well is better.
Penny and penny laid up will be many.
One of these days is none of these days.
In the end things will mend.

Borrow not, sorrow not.

Care's no cure.

Learn to read slow; all other graces Will follow in their proper places. Burn not your candle at both ends. Bind so as to unbind.

EXERCISES TO LESSON III.

Do a thing well once and it is done for good and all. If you would read properly you must utter every word distinctly and every sentence slowly, and in such a tone as to show that you understand the sense: do not skip the letters or clutter the words. If you would find your house safe when you come back lock the door when you go out. If you would pay your way always pay it now. A good deed is better than a good word, and so the performance of a promise is worth more than the promise itself. Too much care makes a wound worse instead of healing it. Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves.

LESSON IV.

If thou wouldst keep money, save money,
If thou wouldst reap money, sow money.
Home is home, be it ever so homely.

Learning is better than house and land;
For when house is gone and money spent,
Learning is most excellent.

He that would eat the kernel must crack the nut.
Never rob Peter to pay Paul.

The worst slave is he who has himself for a master.

Do not trust nor contend, nor borrow, nor lend,
And you'll gain in the end.

Doing nothing is doing ill.

Defer not till to-morrow what may be done to-day.
Death's day is doom's day.

EXERCISES TO LESSON IV.

Midst pleasures and palaces though I may roam,
Be it ever so humble,

There's no place like home.

It is bad to trust, worse to lend, and worst of all to borrow. He that hoards money may make pounds into hundreds, but he that would make pounds into thousands must set his pounds actively to work in buying and selling. To be selfish is to be weak for good and to be strong for evil. He robbed his sister to make good what he had taken from his brother, and so robbed Peter to pay Paul. True learning is a part of the man himself, and therefore it can never be lost.

I am sorry for your loss," said a prince to an ancient sage who had suffered shipwreck. "I have lost nothing," was the reply, "for I carry all my property with me, and while I live I am and must be rich." His wisdom which was his wealth (and it is the only true wealth) he had gained by reading, travelling and study. Thus having taken pains to crack the kernel he had and he enjoyed the nut. Home! sweet home!

LESSON V.

Much haste makes much waste.

Well fed, ill bred.

Weave the web if you would have the thread.

True jests are great pests.

What is bad for me is good for thee.

All locks yield to knocks.

A year of fret will not pay a mite of debt.

The worst wheel makes most squeal.

As you make your bed so you must lay your head.