k mess with a torch, don't commit a nuisance towards [;he sun, don't walk the highway, don't shake hands too eagerly, don't have swallows under your own j:oof, don't keep birds with hooked claws, don't make tvater on nor stand upon your nail- and hair-trimmings, urn the sharp blade away, when you go abroad lon't turn round at the frontier. This is what they meant. Don't stir the fire with k knife : don't stir the passions or the swelling pride bf the great. Don't step over the beam of a balance : lon't overstep the bounds of equity and justice. Don't sit down on your bushel : have the same care «f to-day and the future, a bushel being the day's ation. By not eating your heart he meant not pasting your life in troubles and pains. By saying lo not turn round when you go abroad, he meant o advise those who are departing this life not to et their hearts' desire on living nor to be too much ittracted by the pleasures of this life. The explanations of the rest are similar and would take too ong to set out. ™ Above all, he forbade as food red mullet and jlacktail, and he enjoined abstinence from the hearts >f animals and from beans, and sometimes, according ;o Aristotle, even from paunch and gurnard. Some ;ay that he contented himself with just some honey >r a honeycomb or bread, never touching wine in the laytime, and with greens boiled or raw for dainties, ind fish but rarely. His robe was white and spotless, iis quilts of white wool, for linen had not yet reached :hose parts. He was never known to over-eat, to Dehave loosely, or to be drunk. He would avoid aughter and all pandering to tastes such as in-