Cast A Line For Yourself

A young man stood litlessly wutcbing souie iiiiglois od a bridge. Ho was poor and d'j.eíed. At lengtk, approaching a biisk. ; ví!', BUed wi;b whiilesim.e-looking fish, be sighed, - ' If, now, I liad these I would be í;:i('iy. I could solí tbom at a fair pricc umi buy me food aud lodgiug!' ' I will give you just ís m.ioy aud just bs gocd Csb,' said tbe Ow'ier, who chaneed to oveihear his words, 'if you will do ínn a trifling fivor.' ' And wbat is that ? ' asked the other eagoily. ' Only to tcnd this line till I come back. I wish to go on a short eriaod.' The proposal was gladly accopted. - Tho .ld fisherman, was gone so long that the young man begau to be impatient. - Meanwhile, however, the huogry fish Bnapped greedily at the baited hook, and the young man lost his depression in the excitement of pulling them in, and when the owiier of the lino retunied he hiid caught a largo numbcr. Counting out from thera as mnny as werc in the basket, and presenting theiu to the young man, the old fitshmman said - ■ I fulfill my promisc from the fish that you oauglit, to teach you whenever you see others earning Vihat you need, to waste no time in fruitless wishintr, but to cast a line for