A Stitch in time, saves nine.

The house-wife plies her needle and her thread,
Long after idle people are in bed;

The rent is small, but she full well doth know,
That little rents to larger ones will grow.

WE see before us the industrious mother of the family, busily engaged in mending a rent in one of the children's garments, as she full well knows that if it is not done in time, her labor will be increased tenfold. A farmer who sees a break, however slight, in one of his fences, will, if he goes according to the spirit of the proverb, mend it immediately. If he should neglect it, perhaps some of his cattle will not. Seeing one bar down they may possibly throw down another, and then jump into a field of grain, where a drove of cattle will do much mischief in a short time.

A visitor once saw a mother punishing a little boy hardly a year old. He told her, he thought that such treatment was unnecessary and cruel. She answered that she was punishing him a little now that he might not be punished much more severely when older. Better that he should cry now, than to have his mother cry in her old age. A clapboard, or a shingle, gets loose upon a man's house. "It cannot do much injury," he says, and so neglects it: but the rain and snow get in unperceived, and in a year or two, twenty clapboards are rotten, and fall off. "Ah," says

the man, "this has been neglected too long-all this might have been saved with a few minutes trouble." A stitch in time would have saved nine."

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"For want of a nail, the shoe was lost, for want of a shoe, the horse was lost, for want of a horse, the man was lost." A great ship was going on a long voyage, and when the passengers were all ready to sail, with a fair wind, it was discovered that one little plank seemed somewhat decayed. It would have taken a day or two to have it repaired. The captain could not waithis time was precious, and he thought the plank, without doubt, would last through the voyage. When he arrived in mid ocean an iceberg was encountered. The wormy plank could not endure such a shock; the waters rushed in, and the great vessel, with its cargo and passengers, were sunk to the bottom of the sea.

A stitch in time would save much in the administration of public affairs. One public officer

neglects his duty a little-another cheats a littlebut these small crimes are overlooked-the mischief is not great-the public does not feel, and individuals will not inform, for they are fearful of making some villain their enemy. At last a thousand little evils swell into a great public one-the public are cheated, betrayed, abusedbut where's the remedy for the loss?

To err is human, to forgive divine.
To forget a wrong is the best revenge.
To fright a bird is not the way to catch him.
To get out of one mire, to run into another.
To have two strings to one's bow.

To kill two birds with one stone.

To lose a ship for want of a pennyworth of tar.
To make a mountain of a mole hill.

To make an empire durable, the magistrates must obey the laws, and the people the magistrates.

To see it rain, is better than to be in it.

To stumble at a straw, and leap over a block.
To weep too much for the dead, is to affront the living.
To work, or pay for a dead horse.

Too great and sudden changes, though for the better, are not easily borne.

Too much asseveration is a good ground of suspicion. Too much consulting confounds.

Too much familiarity breeds contempt.

Too much fear cuts all the nerves asunder.

Too much fear is an enemy to good deliberation.
Too much of one thing is good for nothing.

Touch a gall'd horse on the back and he'll kick.
Trade is the mother of money.

Trade knows neither friends nor kindred.

Trust thyself only, and another shall not betray thee. Trusting too much to others is the ruin of many.

Truth and honesty have no need of loud protestations. Truth and oil are ever above.

Truth is the daughter of time.

Truth may languish, but can never perish.

Truth may sometimes come out of the devil's mouth.
Truth never grows old.-Truth seeks no corners.
Truth will sometimes break out unlooked for.
Truth and roses have thorns about them.
Try your skill in gilt first, then in gold.
'Twas fear that first put on arms.

Two dogs strive for a bone, and the third runs away with it.

Two Sir Positives can scarce meet without a skirmish.
Two sparrows upon one ear of wheat cannot agree.
Two things a man should never be angry at, what he
can help, and what he can not help.

Ulcers can not be cured that are concealed.
Unkindness has no remedy at law.

Unprofitable eloquence is like the cypress, which is
great and tall, but bears no fruit.
Upbraiding turns a benefit into an injury.
Use pastime so as not to lose time.

Use soft words and hard arguments.

Use the means and trust to God for the blessing.
Vain glory blossoms but never bears.

Valor can do little without discretion.
Valor that parleys, is near yielding.

Venture a small fish to catch a great one.
Venture not all in one bottom.

Vessels large may venture more, but little boats should keep near the shore.

Vice is the most dangerous when it puts on the garb of virtue.

Vice often rides triumphant in virtue's chariot. Virtue and happiness are mother and daughter. Virtue is more persecuted by the wicked, than encouraged by the good.

Saving at the Spigot and wasting at the Bung.
Penny wise and Pound foolish.
This simp'eton quite saving seems to be,
He stops the leaky spigot, as you see;
In vain he labors, 'tis a useless task,
The open bung-hole soon will drain the cask.

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THIS proverb relates to those persons who, while they may be wise and careful about small things, yet neglect those of much greater importance. Saving at the spigot, and wasting at the bung." A man of this class is seen in the engraving. He appears to be very attentively and busily engaged in stopping up a small hole in the head of the barrel, while his liquid treasure is wasting to a far greater extent at the bung. This he either does not see, or if he sees, does not seem to exercise a proper judg