you have not got at hand the very thing you want, don't waste the time in saying, What a pity! but think promptly of the next best thing that is at hand." After the warm bath, the body was put again into the bed, thoroughly heated. All the time of thus trying to restore warmth to the body, the bellows was applied to one nostril, the other nostril and the mouth being kept close shut, and a gentle pressure was made on the chest; thus the lungs were made to let out and take in the air, as they do in natural breathing. After a long time, and when everybody except Mr. Sutton gave it up for a lost case, there appeared some signs of breathing. Then he gently touched the nostrils with a feather, dipped in sal volatile; this made the poor fellow sneeze, and then the people thought all danger was over, and were going to leave him; but Mr. Sutton knew better than that: he caused the rubbing to be continued some time longer, and as soon as the lad could swallow, he gave him a little warm wine, by a spoonful at a time, and continued to do this for some hours, till a fine perspiration came on, and the lad fell into a comfortable sleep. All this took place before the doctor arrived, for he lived three miles off, and, when sent for, he was gone out in one direction, and his assistant in another: so, if nothing had been done till their arrival, there would have been nothing to do but prepare for a funeral, instead of restoring the poor lad alive to his grateful parents. I remember Mr. Sutton said

that, if no success had attended his efforts, he would not have ceased making them for five or six hours, for that persons have been restored after that length of time; and he thought that many had been cast away for want of perseverance in the use of means.

If a chimney was on fire, instead of throwing open the doors, running about alarming the neighbourhood, and destroying the furniture, Mr. Sutton would shut all the doors, keep the house as quiet as possible, carefully and instantly put out the fire in the grate, and then the fire in the chimney soon went out, or burnt itself out without injury or danger.

He often told us, too, if a person's clothes catch fire, how foolish it is to run screaming into the air. Instead of that, if the person, or those around, had presence of mind to wrap him closely up in a carpet, blanket, or thick quilt, or even to roll him on the floor, the flames might easily be subdued.

There was once a house on fire in our village, and as it happened in the dead of night, and most of the people were frightened out of their wits, in all likelihood several would have been lost, and other houses burned, if it had not been for Mr. Sutton's presence of mind and activity. When he arrived at the spot, all was terror and confusion, the people running against one another, and pouring the water over themselves and each other. But it was just as if an officer made his appearance and gave the word of command. He arranged all

the people, and gave them something to do, and charged each to stand to his post. Instead of letting the men run backwards and forwards to the river for water, he made them all stand in a line, to hand the full buckets from one to another, and a line of women and boys to hand back the empty buckets. Meanwhile he and his man-servant got the family safely out of the window, including a poor old woman who was bed-ridden, and who, as everybody concluded, must perish in the flames. The house was not very high, to be sure, but the danger was great on account of the thatched roof; and had not some one been at hand, to take an active part and to direct others, the family would have lost their lives, and the flames have spread much farther.

After that affair, Mr. Sutton taught the young men a number of clever contrivances; how to fasten sheets together, and to make knots that will not slip, for the purpose of persons letting themselves down from a window. He also offered a little reward to any one who should invent any likely method of preventing mischief, and especially of saving life in case of any future alarm. This set us all to thinking; and perhaps gave us all some notion of being a help, rather than a hinderance, in time of alarm. I shall close my hints on this subject with a maxim which Mr. Sutton told us all to commit to memory: "Let nothing be thought trifling, which may one day save your own life, or that of a fellow creature."

GOVERNING THE TEMPER.

From the same.

PEOPLE are born into the world with a difference of temper; but then, as good Mr. and Mrs. Sutton often laboured to impress upon us, they are accountable for the management of their tempers. Those who possess a gentle, even temper, should reckon it among their mercies; they should consider it, also, as laying a strong claim on them to be kind and forbearing to those around them, and, as much as in them lies, to take away the occasions of peevishness and irritability from those who may not, in this respect, be so highly favoured as themselves.

It has been sometimes observed, that good tempered people are apt to be forgetful, and hence they sometimes very unintentionally give provocation to others. A very easy, good tempered girl has been heard to say," Master was in such a passion, only because I did not hang his great-coat on the right hook," or, "Mistress was so angry, only because I did not put the bread in the right basket. They are such bad tempered people, there is no such thing as living with them." Now, even admitting that the master or the mistress might discover more irritation than the occasion warranted, the good tempered servant should be reminded, that masters and mistresses have a right not only to say what work shall be done, but in what manner; and if they choose to give directions in the minutest particulars, those directions

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should be obeyed. If a master says, this hook I wish my coat to be hung," the servant can hardly clear herself of disobedience who even thoughtlessly hangs it on another. If she did not think, she ought to have thought. Besides, very serious inconvenience is often occasioned by inattention to these little things. Suppose a medical man called up in the night, if his great-coat, &c., cannot be instantly found, either his own life may be sacrificed to going without his accustomed wrappings, or that of his patient to the delay of seeking them. To a thoughtless housemaid it may seem of very little consequence, when she has dusted a book, whether she lays it down shut or open in the place she found it, or whether she replaces a lot of papers on the desk in the same order as she found them, or turns them topsyturvy. But either of these exploits may perhaps give the studious master hours of disappointment and perplexity. Besides, more irritation of temper in families arises from these petty vexations, than from more serious and wilful faults. Before, then, the easy tempered person reproaches him who is angry with too great irritability, it may be worth considering whether part of the blame does not lie at the door of him who thoughtlessly gives the provocation. A certain mistress was considered by the servants as needlessly particular; not a thing in her house, however small, was allowed to be applied to improper uses. A servant in the family, who was wont to lay hold on the