But I can have Jane's whenever I want it, she says; and you know she is so kind and willing to lend me anything that she has.

I don't like to wear her things; but then I shall not want the cloak often." Henry Thorne sighed at the thoughts his wife's words stirred in his mind.
"I don't know how it is," he at length said, despondingly; "William can't work any faster than I can, nor earn more a week, and yet he and Jane have every thing comfortable, and are saving money into the bargain, while we want many things that they have, and are not a dollar ahead." One of the reasons for this, to her husband so unaccountable, trembled on Ellen's tongue, but she could not make up her mind to reprove him; and so bore in silence, and with some pain, what she felt as a reflection upon her want of frugality in managing household affairs.
Let us advance the characters we have introduced, a year in their life's pilgrimage, and see if there are any fruits of these good resolutions.
"Where is Thorne, this morning ?" asked the owner of the shop, speaking to Moreland, one morning, an hour after all the workmen had come in.
"I do not know, really," replied Moreland.

"I saw him yesterday, when he was well." "He's off gunning, I suppose, again.

If so, it is the tenth day he has lost in idleness during the last two months.

I am afraid I shall have to get a hand in his place, upon whom I can place more dependence.