What! You follow the trade of a barber and pretend to be independent? A fling at one who being in some lowly business puts on the air of importance. (Persian). When a beggar gets on horseback the devil cannot outride him. (German).

When a clown is on a mule he remembers neither God nor the world. (Spanish).

When a Donko becomes rich he runs mad.

A Donko is one of a negro tribe in the interior of Western Africa. The Donkos furnish the Oji people with most of their slaves.

(Oji).

When a man becomes rich the town goes to ruin.-He loses all his public spirit in his effort to please himself. (Oji).

When a slave becomes a freeman he will drink rain water -i.e. He will become so lazy that he will drink water that is nearest at hand. (Oji).

When a slave girl becomes mistress she does not mind sending her slave girls out in bad weather. stani).

(Hindu

When a slave is emancipated he will call himself a noble

When a slave is freed he will call himself Sonneni.

(Ashanti).

When claninclo get ye-ye-tickle he t'ink hese'f gubnah. (British Guiana).

When fortune smiled on a mean person he ordered an umbrella to be bought at midnight. (Telugu). When he had filled his belly he began to vex the poor. (Hindi).

When the goat goes to church he does not stop till he gets to the altar. (Old Irish).

When the poor man grows rich he beholds the stars at noonday.—i.e. He is purse proud and insolent. (Bengalese).

When the slave is freed he thinks himself a nobleman.

(Oji). When wert thou changed into a queen, O pawn?-The reference is to a game of chess. (Arabian).

Wondrous God's power! Wondrous God's caprice! The muskrat oils his head with jasmine essence. (Hindustani).

Yesterday he came out of his egg, today he does not admire its shell. (Osmanli).

STILL WATERS RUN DEEP

It has been thought that this saying is an adaptation from the French novel Le Gendre but the Roman historian Quintus Curtius in the first century declared that the Bachrians used the proverb so that it must have been quoted more than two thousand years ago.

"Silent and quiet conspirators," says Brewer, "are the most dangerous" as "Still waters run deep." This opinion seems to be shared by people of all climes. The Portuguese bid us "Beware of the man who never speaks and the dog that never barks" and the Russians tell us that "In a still pool swarm devils."

The patriarch of Uz, knowing his own pain and grief, chided his friends for trying to minister to his comfort in their ignorance and called on them to be silent, saying, “Oh, that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it would be your wisdom" (Job 13:5).

Yet it must not be forgotten that, like nearly all folk sayings, it is not always true. Talkers are not always fools, wise men are not always quiet. "Waves will rise on silent waters" and the restless sea continually beats against the shore.

"Even a fool when he holdeth his peace is counted wise; when he shutteth his lips, he is esteemed as prudent."-PROVERBS 17:28.

"Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep;
And in his simple show he harbours treason.
The fox barks not when he would steal the lamb.
No, no, my sovereign; Gloucester is a man
Unsounded yet and full of deep deceit.”

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, A.D. 1564-1616, King Henry VI, Part 2.

"Deep waters noiseless are; and this we know,
That chiding streams betray small depth below.
So when love speechless is, she doth express
A depth in love and that depth bottomless."

-ROBERT HERRICK, A.D. 1591-1674.

"As when the door is shut it cannot be seen what is within the house: so the mouth being shut up by silence, the folly that is within lieth undiscovered; and as in glasses and vessels so in men, the sound which they make showeth whether they be cracked or sound. An ass is known by his ears (saith the Dutch proverb) and so is a fool by his talk. As a bird is known by his note and a bell by his clapper, so is a man by his discourse. Plutarch tells us that Megabysus, a nobleman of Persia, coming into Apelles', the painter's, work house, took upon him to speak something there concerning the art of painting and limning but he did it so absurdly that the apprentices jeered him and the master could not

bear with him."-JOHN TRAPP, A.D. 1601-1669, Comment on Job 13:5.

"A wise man will be of few words, as being afraid of speaking amiss. He that has knowledge and aims to do good with it is careful when he does speak to speak to the purpose, and therefore says little, that he may take time to deliberate upon it. He spares his words because they are better spared than ill spent.

"This is generally taken for such a sure indication of wisdom that a fool may gain the reputation of being a wise man if he have but wit enough to hold his tongue, to hear and see and say little. If a fool hold his peace men of candor will think him wise, because nothing appears to the contrary and because it will be thought that he is making observations on what others say, and gaining experience, and is consulting with himself what he shall say that he may speak pertinently. See how easy it is to gain men's good opinion and to impose upon them. But when a fool holds his peace God knows his heart and the folly that is bound there; thoughts are words to Him and therefore He cannot be deceived in His judgment of men.-MATTHEW HENRY, A.D. 1662-1714, Comment on Proverbs 17:28.

"It has been safely enough alleged that of two men equally successful in the business of life, the man who is silent will be generally deemed to have more in him than the man who talks. The