A near-sighted friend went to an optician the other day to change the glasses of his spectacles, which had become too weak. He was given the next number lower.
"After this number, what will I take?" he asked.
"These."
"And after that?"
"Those."
"And then?" asked the myope, with an anxious air.
"Then," said the dealer, "I think a small and sagacious dog, with a string attached, will be about the thing."
GOOD MANNERS.
Sydney Smith, in the following paragraph, suggests the moral basis of good manners: