[End of Required Reading for April.]
Translation.—A Welsh curate having preached several sermons which were considered superior to his own powers of composition, was asked by a friend how he managed? He replied: “Do you see, I have got a volume of sermons by one Tillotson, and a very good book it is; so I translate one of the sermons into Welsh, and then back again into English; after which the devil himself would not know it again.”
[THEY GROW TO FLOWERS, OR TO WEEDS.]
THE TRUE GENTLEMAN.
’Tis he whose very thought and deed
By rule of virtue moves;