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Journal, office and furniture, and am going, to set you
up in business. I see you can take care of your own,

therefore I can safely trust you with mine. You are
| not afraid of difficulties.”

No, it was not a lucky hit, nor any hit at all, if by
this is meant a chance event. The meeting was the
natural consequence of the business habits of the busi-
ness man and the business boy! And now, when poor
Charley Frazier, on beholding my comfortable home
and pleasant lands, the other day, called me “a lucky
dog,” and “one of Fortune’s favourites,” I would say to
all as I said to him, Success in life—success in any
department of life—can only come from, and is the
legitimate result of, a firm, unflinching resolution to
work,-—to work honestly and industriously ; and these
habits must be formed in boyhood, or they will never
be well formed. They must be zzzwrought at home.

“Nothing good ever turns up for me!” ‘exclaimed
poor Charley, as he came the other day to talk with
me for the hundredth time about some new prospect

for business, Alas! they seemed always to be prospects,