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 glad to work, if any body would employ him, and that he should be able if he could get some victuals to eat; for he had had nothing for three days, and he was a poor country boy, and knew no body, and no body would employ him.

He then endeavoured to get up, but he was so very weak, that he fell down again, which excited so much compassion in the merchant, that he ordered the servants to take him in, and give him some meat and drink, and let him help the cook to do any dirty work, that she had to set him about. People are too apt to reproach those who beg, with being able; but give themselves no concern to put them in a way of getting business to do, or considering whether they are able to do it; which is not charity.

Think of this ye affluent,

And when the overplus of your fortunes disturb

Your minds, think how little stops the lash of penury

And makes the wretched happy!

I remember a circumstance of this sort, which Sir William Thompson told my father with tears in his eyes, and it is so affecting, that I shall never forget it. STORY