IT’S NEVER TOO LATE TO MEND.

At Chester, in the beginning of the year 1790, a reputable farmer, on

the evening of a market-day, called at the shop of Mr. Poole,

bookseller, and, desiring to speak with him at the door, put a shilling

into his hand, telling him, “he had owed it to him many years.” The

latter asked, for what? To which the farmer replied, that “When a boy,

in buying a book-almanac at his shop, he had stolen another--the

reflection of which had frequently given him much uneasiness.” If any

one who sees this ever wronged his neighbour, let him be encouraged by

the courage of the farmer of Chester, to make reparation in like manner,

and so make clean his conscience.

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