Lessons in Life, For All Who Will Read Them

Lessons in Life, For All Who Will Read Them

The Project Gutenberg Etext of Lessons in Life, by T.S. Arthur #11 in our series by T.S. Arthur
Copyright laws are changing all over the world. Be sure to check the copyright laws for your country before downloading or redistributing this or any other Project Gutenberg file.
We encourage you to keep this file, exactly as it is, on your own disk, thereby keeping an electronic path open for future readers.
Please do not remove this.
This header should be the first thing seen when anyone starts to view the etext. Do not change or edit it without written permission. The words are carefully chosen to provide users with the information they need to understand what they may and may not do with the etext. To encourage this, we have moved most of the information to the end, rather than having it all here at the beginning.
**Welcome To The World of Free Plain Vanilla Electronic Texts**
**Etexts Readable By Both Humans and By Computers, Since 1971**
*****These Etexts Were Prepared By Thousands of Volunteers!*****
Information on contacting Project Gutenberg to get etexts, and further information, is included below. We need your donations.
The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a 501(c)(3) organization with EIN [Employee Identification Number] 64-6221541 Find out about how to make a donation at the bottom of this file.

Title: Lessons in Life, For All Who Will Read Them
Author: T.S. Arthur
Edition: 10
Language: English
Character set encoding: ASCII
Release Date: November, 2003 [Etext #4616] [Yes, we are more than one year ahead of schedule] [This file was first posted on February 20, 2002]
The Project Gutenberg Etext of Lessons in Life, by T.S. Arthur *****This file should be named lssnl10.txt or lssnl10.zip*****
Corrected EDITIONS of our etexts get a new NUMBER, lssnl11.txt VERSIONS based on separate sources get new LETTER, lssnl10a.txt
This etext was created by Charles Aldarondo ([email protected])
Project Gutenberg Etexts are often created from several printed editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the US unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we usually do not keep etexts in compliance with any particular paper edition.
The "legal small print" and other information about this book may now be found at the end of this file. Please read this important information, as it gives you specific rights and tells you about restrictions in how the file may be used.

LESSONS IN LIFE, FOR ALL WHO WILL READ THEM.
BY T. S. ARTHUR.
PHILADELPHIA:
1851.

PREFACE.
"WE are never too old to learn;" is a truism that cannot be repeated too often, if, in the repetition, we do not lose the force of the sentiment. In fact, at every stage of existence we are learners; and, if we (sic) con the lessons well that are written in the great Book of Human Life, wide open before us, we will be wiser and happier. To make the study easier for some, the Stories in this little volume have been written. They present a few marked phases in life, and the lessons taught are worthy of thoughtful consideration.
"STORIES FOR PARENTS" will speedily follow this volume, and make the eighth in our "LIBRARY FOR THE HOUSEHOLD."

CONTENTS.

THE RIGHT OF WAY COALS OF FIRE A NEW PLEASURE THE DAUGHTER-IN-LAW SMITH AND JONES; OR, THE TOWN LOT HE MUST HAVE MEANT ME FOR THE FUN OF IT FORGIVE AND FORGET PAYING THE MINISTER HAD I BEEN CONSULTED THE MISTAKES OF A "RISING FAMILY" THE MEANS OF ENJOYMENT

LESSONS IN LIFE.
THE RIGHT OF WAY.

MR. EDWARD BOLTON had purchased himself a farm, and taken possession thereof. Once, while examining the premises, before deciding to buy, he had observed a light wagon moving along on the extreme south edge of the tract of land included in the farm, but it had occasioned no remark. It was late in the afternoon when he arrived with his family at their new home. On the morning that followed, while Mr. Bolton stood conversing with a farm-hand who had been on the place under the former owner, he observed the same vehicle passing across the portion of his land referred to.
"Whose wagon is that, Ben?" he asked, in the tone of a man who felt that another had trespassed upon his rights.
"It is Mr. Halpin's," was replied.
"Halpin, who owns the next farm?"
"Yes, sir."
"He takes a liberty with my premises that I would not like to take with his," said Mr. Bolton, who was annoyed by the circumstance. "And there he is himself, as I live! riding along over my ground as coolly as if it belonged to him. Verily, some men have the impudence of old Nick himself!"
"They always go by that road," replied Ben; "at least, it has been so ever since I have worked on the farm. I think I once heard Mr. Jenkins, from whom you bought, tell somebody that Mr. Halpin's farm had the right of way across this