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delible.” Habits may be likened to a rail-
road, on which the carriages move smooth'y
and easily: so when you have frequently in-
dulged a wrofig tendency, you will find) it
grow more and more easy to do wrong.

The importance of forming right habits is
seen upon a little reflection. The things we
do once or twice we are likely to repeat: we

 

are, therefore, always, forming habits: good
or bad ; and children frequently get them as
settled as a rail-road track, before they are
aware of it. Now, these habits may ruin
those who adopt them, and turn into evil
the best advantages that they can enjoy.

If a boy gets the habit of studying in a
half-way, slovenly, slip-shod manner, he is
almost certain to be greatly injured thereby.