So you lose your temper, and come out in an article which you think is going to finish "Ananias," proving him a booby who doesn't know enough to understand even a lyceum-lecture, or else a person that tells lies.

Now you think you 've got him! Not so fast.

"Ananias" keeps still and winks to "Shimei," and "Shimei" comes out in the paper which they take in your neighbor's kitchen, ten times worse than t'other fellow.

If you meddle with "Shimei," he steps out, and next week appears "Rab-shakeh," an unsavory wretch; and now, at any rate, you find out what good sense there was in Hezekiah's "Answer him not."-- No, no,--keep your temper .-- So saying, the Little Gentleman doubled his left fist and looked at it as if he should like to hit something or somebody a most pernicious punch with it.
Good!--said I .-- Now let me give you some axioms I have arrived at, after seeing something of a great many kinds of good folks.
-- Of a hundred people of each of the different leading religious sects, about the same proportion will be safe and pleasant persons to deal and to live with.
-- There are, at least, three real saints among the women to one among the men, in every denomination.
-- The spiritual standard of different classes I would reckon thus: 1.

The comfortably rich.
2.