The Quaker And His Watch.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 31 January 1911, Page 4

The Quaker And His Watch.

• ■ — Friend John,—l herewith send thee my pocket clock, which greatly standet'h in need of thy friendly correction. The last time ho was at thy school he was no ways reformed by thy discipline, or in the least benefited thereby, for I perceive by the index of his mind ho speaketh falsely, and the truth is not in him, that his motions are wavering and irregular, that his pulses are very quick, which betokoneth not an even temper. At other times it waxeth so sluggislh notwithstanding I frequently urge him that when he should be on his study, as thou knowest his usual name denoteth, I find him slumbering and sleeping, 'or, as the vanity of human wisdom praiseth it, "T catch him napping." Hence, I am induced to believe he is not right in his inward man; examine him, therefore, and prove him, I 'beseech ihee, thoroughly, that thou mayest, by being well acquainted with ibis inward frame and disposition, draw him from the error of his ways, and show the path wherein he should go.

His body is foul, and the whole mass is corrupted; purge him, therefore, with thy charming physic from all pollutions ,that Die may vibrate and circulate according to truth. I will placo him a. few days under thy case, and pay for his ■board when thou rcquirest it. Tn the last, thou chargest me with oneoiighth of a pound .sterling, which I will certainly pay when thy work deserveth it.

Do thou regulate his motion for tho time to come with the luminary that ruleth over the day, and let him learn from that unerring ginide the true calculation of his tahle and equation, and when thou findest him converted from the error of his ways, and made comfortable to the ahove-na.med rules, then do thou send Ihim home witlh a just hill of charge, drawn out by the spirit of moderation, a-nd it shall be faithfully remitted by thy friend S. R This second day of the week, fanely called, Monday.