PERSEVERE AND PROSPER.

but you must wash your face and hands,
and put on a clean collar, and brush your
jacket.”

Arthur looked very incredulous as to the
necessity of all this. His mother reminded
him that he ought to acquire habits of per-
sonal cleanliness and propriety, while he
was a child, because they were necessary to
health and character through life. She said
that the acquisition of such habits was a
duty, and therefore, although he found it
irksome, he ought to persevere in the endea-
vour to attain them. “ In these little things,
as in the greater ones of which we were
speaking just now, the same maxim holds
good—Persevere, and you will prosper.”

“Very well, mamma! Good bye now.—
Come along, Fanny. I am going to be a
persevering prosperous dandy from this day.
Now for arun: who will be up stairs first 2”

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