We may possess valuable talents without profiting by them. Talent furnishes the machinery; application, the power to drive it. It is only by putting the two together that we shall secure the prize within our reach.
CROWING.
EARLY one morning, while the fowls were waiting around the kitchen door for their breakfast, a spring chicken attempted to crow, but succeeded only in uttering a feeble squawk.
A young cock, hearing this, stood up and crowed loud and clear, saying to the other:
“You’d better be still till you can crow like that.”