A COVETOUS Man and an envious one, becoming petitioners to Jupiter, were told, that what the one asked should be doubled on the other. The covetous Man, according to his character, desired great riches, and his companion had them double. This did not, however, satisfy the envious Man, who repining that the covetous Man was but half as rich as himself, requested that one of his own eyes might be put out; for his companion was then to lose both his.

REFLECTION.

The covetous Man in this fable had a very hard put. As avarice is always attended with some envy, it was no small mortification to one who would have been glad to

have engrossed all, to be under a necessity of making another twice as rich as himself by virtue of his own choice. But an envious Man cannot possibly be shown in a stronger light than he is here. For he not only repines that his companion is half as rich as he, though he enjoys his own double share by virtue of the other's prayer; but he chooses to forego all the benefits which he, in his turn, might reap by his petition, lest his neighbour should have double; and prays for a curse upon himself, to wit, that he might lose one of his own eyes, so that the other might lose both his; and be thereby made incapable of enjoying with comfort the acquisition he had so ardently coveted. This remarkable instance of envy and avarice admonishes us to be cautious how we give way to such wicked passions, as not only make the persons governed by them a torment to themselves, but render them at the same time odious to God and

A FOWLER took his gun, and went into the woods a shooting. He spied a Ringdove among the branches of an oak, and intended to kill it. He clapped the piece to his shoulder, and took his aim accordingly. But, just as he was going to pull the trigger, an adder, which he had trod upon under the grass, stung him so painfully in the leg, that he was forced to quit his design, and threw his gun down in a passion. The poison immediately infected his blood, and his whole body began to mortify; which, when he perceived, he could not help owning it to be just. "Fate," says he, "has brought destruction upon me, while I was contriving the death of another."

REFLECTION.

This is another lesson against injustice; a topic in

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which our just author abounds. And, if we consider the matter fairly, we must allow it to be as reasonable that some one should do violence to us, as we should commit it upon another. When we are impartial in our reflections, thus we must always think. The unjust man, with a hardened unfeeling heart, can do a thousand bitter things to others: but if a single calamity touches himself, O, how tender he is! how insupportable is the uneasiness it occasions! Why should we think others born to hard treament, more than ourselves? or imagine it can be reasonable to do to another, what we ourselves should be unwilling to suffer.

THERE'S NO TO-MORROW.

A MAN, who had lived a very profligate life, at length being awakened by the lively representations of a sober friend on the apprehensions of a feverish indisposition, promised, that he would heartily set about his reformation, and that To-morrow he would seriously begin it. -But the symptoms going off, and that To-morrow coming, he still put it off till the next, and so he went on from one To-morrow to another; but still he continued his reprobate life. This, his friend observing, said to him, "I am very much concerned to find how little effect my disinterested advice has upon you: but, my friend, let me tell you, that since your To-morrow never comes, nor do you seem to intend it shall, I will believe you no more, except you set about your repentance and amendment this very moment: for, to say nothing of your repeated broken promises, you must