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TIE SaADY SIDE-"N Mother, many'nt | wear
nv new clothes to-day" said an urchn who was


lust supplied with his winter suit. "Oh. no. my
dear, the weather is too warm entr ly" mo,


but mother, Ill keep on the shady side of the
street"


People may laugh at the boy in thus trying to
reconcile tn, incongruities by sailing on n middle
course an betaking himself to the shady side of
the way: but lac is Just like people. for all that
who in their moral conlnci, split the difference
with conscience by getting on the sha ~ side nf
the wrong Ifitis necessary to econ lmise, for ex-
ample, it is done, perhaps, in that half and half
method. which gives nearly all the pan, without
accomplishing the desired end and with saving
here and an extravaganza there, we totter lamely
enough along the shady side of the street, and
never arrive at the purpose And 81 in reforms Of
habit aud conduct, almost everyb body is for the
.sshady side of tamperin- with error or with the
sin instead OF Jumping the he'd and retiring alto
gether from the paths of evil, under the idea pro-
baby that with the half way measure, shall
be- ouite as rood as il is necessary for any one TO
he II is so ever, with the idle man, who con;n-
ually resolves upon study, diligence. app'icaton-
Whatever ought 10 be his pFactIce-blt yet finds
every day some inducement to relax the rule, wi h
an intent TO do better tomorrow The glaitonous,
too and the Incorporate, such hkewls- is the case
with them: aud they strive for the shady side
throurh the compronl ses of gradual reformation
But IL Will never answer these wintersiIts on sum-
mer days-a man must BE- either one thing or an
other; for in attempting to harnonize the right
n, the v-ronp, to that agreeable species Of nrn-
trail ground on which he may obtain the advaut-
apes of a line of travel, agreeably tempered with
the forbidden pleasures which be ong to ITS oppo-
Site he pursues species of the zigzag, which never
leads to good: and is perhaps about as rational as
the Spanish Prince, who when forbidden TO dssPort
himself with his gun when his queenly mother lay
dead in the a &C., enquired of his ConieSsor, if
he might not b, permitted thus to beguile the ts-
dious time, if he were only TO ''shoo; very little
birds"