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( 22 ) is very captivating, and may in ome meaure be jut, yet, (for example) I can draw one that is not only alarming, but equally true—huband and wife are together without a competency for life; a child, year after year enters the world, to be both mierable and to make them o! Are the cries of thee children harmonious?—are they the weets of matrimony? "It is better for a man to be alone."

All politenes after marriage ceaes: "A lover, when a huband, is a lover no more." This is a common aying, and I believe it is verified by almot every couple after the honeymoon. Good manners and repect generally ceae after marriage, and of coure ill-humour and anger fill their place! If a wife drops her handkerchief, her fan, or any thing ele, the huband leaves her to take it up herelf; but when he was courting, how readily would he fly to her aitance, how gladly top to erve her? A huband you may ee very often take the wall-ide of his wife whenever they are walking together; they will frequently take a long walk and not exchange a ingle word. Such are the pleaures and harmony of matrimony.

My friend will now give me leave to point out the bleings of a ingle life. A bachelor has no caue for jealouy, nor is he fretted with the jealouy of his wife! he is unacquainted with the actions of crim. con. and the diquietudes attending a bad woman—he has no ons to torment him with