‘A WAY TO BE HAPPY.

I have fire-proof perennial enjoyments, called employments. |
RICHTER.

- Burats busy and always singing at

your work; you are the happiest
man I know.” This was said by the cus-
tomer of an industrious hatter named Par-
ker, as he entered his shop.

“T should not call the world a very hap-
py one, were I the happiest man it con-
tains,” replied the hatter, pausing in his
work and turning his contented-looking
face toward the individual who had ad-
dressed him. ‘I think I should gain some-
thing by an exchange with you.”

“Why do you think so?”

“You have enough to live upon, and are
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