The
bundle was large; he was visibly reluctant to take it; and wished very
much that I should send for it. This, however, was impossible; and he
subdued his pride; but when I asked him to take back an empty bottle
which belonged to the store, he, with a mortified look, begged me to
do it up neatly in a paper, that it might look like a small package.
Is this boy likely to be happier for cherishing a foolish pride, which
will forever be jarring against his duties? Is he in reality one
whit more respectable than the industrious lad who sweeps stores, or
carries bottles, without troubling himself with the idea that all the
world is observing his little unimportant self? For, in relation to
the rest of the world, each individual is unimportant; and he alone
is wise who forms his habits according to his own wants, his own
prospects, and his own principles.
TRAVELLING AND PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS.
There is one kind of extravagance rapidly increasing in this country,
which, in its effects on our purses and our _habits_, is one of the
worst kinds of extravagance; I mean the rage for travelling, and
for public amusements.
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