it is scarcely necessary to say much, as the foregoing advice applies to them. One militiaman exclaimed to another, "Jim, you hain't in step" "Bain't I?" exclaimed the other; "well, change yourn!" Whoever desires knowledge must strive for it. It must not be dispensed with after the fashion of Tummus and Jim, who held the following dialogue upon a vital question:--_Tummus_. "I zay, Jim, be you a purtectionist?" _Jim_. "E'as I be." _Tummus_. "Wall, I zay, Jim, what _be_ purtection?" _Jim_. "Loa'r, Tummus, doan't 'ee knaw?" _Tummus_. "Naw, I doan't." _Jim_. "Wall, I doan't knaw as can tell 'ee, Tummus, _vur I doan't exakerly knaw mysel'!_"