Getting Up On Cold Mornings
An Italian author--Giulio Cordara, a Jesuit--has written a poem upon insects, which he begins by insisting, that those troublesome and abominable little animals were created for our annoyance, and that they were certainly not inhabitants of Paradise. We of the north may dispute this piece of theology； but on the other hand, it is clear as the snow on the house-tops, that Adam was not under the necessity of shaving； and that when Eve walked out of her delicious bower, she did not step upon ice three inches thick.
Some people say it is a very easy thing to get up of a cold morning. You have only, they tell you, to take the resolution； and the thing is done. This may be very true； just as a boy at school has only to take a flogging, and the thing is over. But we have not at all made up our minds upon it； and we find it a very pleasant exercise to discuss the matter, candidly, before we get up. This at least is not idling, though it may be lying. It affor

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