Every bird likes its own nest
Charles Spurgeon · John Ploughman's Pictures; or, More of His Plain Talk for Plain People
NEST.
IT pleases me to see liow fond the birds
are of their Httle homes. No doubt
each one thinks his own nest is the very best ;
(213)
214 JOHN PLOUGHMAN'S PICTURES,
and so it is for him, just as my home is the
best palace for me, even for me King John,
the king of the Cottage of Content. I will
ask no more if providence only continues
to give me —
" A little field well tilled,
A little house well filled,
And a little wife well willed."
An Englishman's house is his castle, and
the true Briton is always fond of the old
roof-tree. Green grows the house-leek on
the thatch, and sweet is the honey-suckle
at the porch, and dear are the gilly-flowers
in the front garden ; but best of all is the
good wife within, who keeps all as neat as
a new pin. Frenchmen may live in their
coffee-houses, but an Englishman's best life
is seen at home.
" My own house, though small,
Is the best house of all."
When boys get tired of eating tarts, and
maids have done with winning hearts, and
lawyers cease to take their fees, and leaves
leave off to grow on trees, then will John
Ploughman cease to love his own dear home.
John likes to hear some sweet voice sing —
EVERY BIRD LIKES ITS OW.V XEST. 215
" 'Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam,
Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home;
A charm from the sky seems to hallow us there,
WTiich, wherever we rove, is not met with elsewhere.
Home! Home I sweet, sweet home !
There's no place like home 1 "
People who take no pleasure in their own
home are queer folks, and no better than
they should be. Ever}^ dog^ is a lion at his
own door, and a man should make most of
those who make most of him. Women
should be house-keepers and keep in the
house. That man is to be pitied who has
married one of the I\Iiss Gadabouts. Mrs.
Cackle and her friend Mrs. Dressemout are
enough to drive their husbands into the
county jail for shelter : there can be no
peace where such a piece of goods as either
of them is to be found. Old Tusser said —
" 111 huswifery pricketh
Herself up with pride :
Good huswifery tricketh
Her house as a bride.
" 111 huswifery moveth
With gossip to spend :
Good huswifery loveth
Her household to tend."
2i6 JOHN PLOUGHMAN'S PICTURES.
The woman whose husband wastes his
evenings with low fellows at the beer-shop
is as badly off as a slave ; and when the
Act of Parliament shuts up most of these
ruin-houses, it will be an Act of Emanci-
pation for her. Good husbands cannot have
too much of their homes, and if their wives
make their homes comfortable they will
soon grow proud of them. When good
fathers get among their children they are
as merry as mice in malt. Our Joe Scroggs
says he's tired of his house, and the house
certainly looks tired of him, for it is all out
of windows, and would get out of doors if
it knew how. He will never be weary in
well doing, for he never began. What a
different fellow he would be if he could be-
lieve that the best side of the world is a
man's own fireside. I know it is so, and so
do many more.
" Seek home for rest,
For home is best."
What can it be that so deludes lots of
people who ought to know better? They
have sweet wives, and nice families, and
comfortable houses, and they are several
EVERY BIRD LIKES ITS OWN NEST. 217
cuts above us poor country bumpkins, and
yetthey must be out of an evening. What
is it for ? Surely it can't be the company ;
for the society of the woman you love, who
is the mother of your children, is worth all
the companies that ever met together. I
fear they are away soaking their clay, and
washing all their wits away. If so, it is a
great shame, and those who are guilty of it
ought to be trounced. O that drink ! that
drink !
Dear, dear, what stuff people will pour
into their insides ! Even if I had to be
poisoned I should like to know what I was
swallowing. A cup of tea at home does
people a sight more good than all the mix-
tures you get abroad. There's nothing like
the best home-brewed, and there's no better
mash-tub for making it in than the old-fash-
ioned earthenware teapot. Our little chil-
dren sing, " Please, father, come home,"
and John Ploughman joins with thousands
of little children in that simple prayer which
every man who is a man should be glad to
answer. I like to see husband and wife
longing to see each other.
2i8 JOHN PLOUGHMAN'S PICTURES.
" An ear that waits to catch,
A hand upon the latch ;
A step that hastens its sweet rest to win;
A world of care without,
A world of strife shut out,
A world of love shut in."
Fellow workmen, try to let it be so with
you and your wives. Come home, and
bring your wages with you, and make your-
selves happy by making everyone happy
around you.
My printer jogs my elbow, and says,
"That will do: I can't get any more in."
Then, Mr. Passmore, I must pass over
many things, but I cannot leave off without
praising God for his goodness to me and
mine, and all my brother ploughmen, for it
is of his great mercy that he lets us live in
this dear old country and loads us with so
many benefits.
This bit of poetry shall be my finish : I
mean every word of it. Let us sing it
together.
" What pleasant groves, what goodly fields!
What fruitful hills and vales have we !
How sweet an air our climate yields !
How blest with flocks and herds we be I
EVERY BIRD LIKES ITS OWN NEST. 219
How milk and honey doth o'erflow !
How clear and wholesome are our springs !
How safe from ravenous beasts we go !
And, oh, how free from poisonous things!
" For these, and for our grass, our com ;
For all that springs from blade or bough ;
For all those blessings that adorn.
Both wood and field, this kingdom through;
For all of these, thy praise we sing ;
And humbly, Lord, entreat thee too,
That fruit to thee we forth may bring.
As unto us thy creatures do."
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