A profligate spendthrift who is always borrowing money will get more from his friends than the rigidly honest man who only borrows of them once, under pressure of the direst want. In the one case the friends will not be at all surprised, and they will give. In the other case they will be very much surprised, and they will hesitate. Is the prison that

Mr.

Scoundrel lives in at the end of his career a more uncomfortable place than the workhouse that

Mr.

Honesty lives in at the end of

his