FANCIES WRITTEN BY THE FIRELIGHT.
One of the first fancies suggested by the firelight is, that everybody fancies that he can poke the fire better than everybody else. Philosophy may speculate as to what can be the cause which generates this fancy, but it is doubtful if philosophy will ever make much progress towards solving the moot point.
How ungrateful is man! The fire is decidedly the warmest friend man has, and yet it is, perhaps the one he most delights to turn his back upon. But use it as he may, the fire is incapable of returning his ingratitude. One never knew the fire give one the cold shoulder.
When a cinder shoots out, many say it is a money-box, while others think it is a coffin. The words are not so different as at first thought they may seem to us. There are very many men who make, by overwork at it, their money-box their coffin.
The fire makes a report when something bright comes out of it. The same thing happens generally with the fire of wit. When brilliant things come out, it is pretty certain there will be a report of them.
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