Life and labors of Charles HSpurgeon: the faithful preacher, the devoted pastor, the noble philanthropist, the beloved college president, and the voluminous writer, author, etc., etc. . e mark; he remindsme of a blind man on a blind horse, who rode out in the middleof a dark night, and the more he tried to keep out of ditches themore he fell in. When they catch live red herrings on Newmarket Heath he will JOHN PLOUGHMANS TALK AND PICTURES. 443 bring out a good thing, and line his pockets with gold; up tillnow, he says, he has been unlucky, and he believes that if he wereto make a man a coffin
Life and labors of Charles HSpurgeon: the faithful preacher, the devoted pastor, the noble philanthropist, the beloved college president, and the voluminous writer, author, etc., etc. . e mark; he remindsme of a blind man on a blind horse, who rode out in the middleof a dark night, and the more he tried to keep out of ditches themore he fell in. When they catch live red herrings on Newmarket Heath he will JOHN PLOUGHMANS TALK AND PICTURES. 443 bring out a good thing, and line his pockets with gold; up tillnow, he says, he has been unlucky, and he believes that if he wereto make a man a coffin he would be sure not to die. He is goingto be rich next year, and you will then see what you shall see:just now he would be glad of half a crown on account, for whichhe will give you a share in his invention for growing wheat withoutploughing or sowing. It is odd to see this wise man at times when his wits are allup in the moon: he is just like Chang the Chinaman, who said, Here s my umbrella, and here s my bundle; but where am IfHe cannot findhis spectacles, though he is looking through them;and when he is out riding on his own ass, he pulls up and says,Wherever is that donkey?. I have heard of one learned man who boiled his watch and stoodlooking at the egg, and another who forgot that he was to bemarried that day, and would have lost his lady if his friend hadnot fetched him out of his study. Think of that, my boy, anddont fret yourself because you are not so overdone with learningas to have forgotten your common sense. 444 LIFE AND LABORS OF C. H. SPURGEON. The regular wind-catcher is soft as silk and as green as grass,and yet he thinks himself very long-headed; and so indeed hewould be if his ears were taken into the measurement. He isgoing to do — well — there s no telling what. He is full of wishesbut short of will, and so his buds never come to flowers or is like a hen that lays eggs, and never sits on them long enoughto hatch a single chick. Moonshine is t
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