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 ing and talking, he losses at least an hour of time; and in the evening he goes to his two-penny club, and there tarries from six till ten. Now, it must be a very poor trade, if in time he could not have earned a shilling. if he keeps servants, the want of his presence home may have occasioned his losing as much  he could have gained himself; so that his  a groat morning and night, (which is two-penec each time) cannot be aecounted less the loss of 2s 8d a-day, which comes to 14s  week, and £36: 10s a-year, which sum if  until his eldest son arrived at 21 years of  and so fit for marriage, and to set up in  would have amounted to £750: 10s. They would live so as not to want money, must  all such idle and needless expenses, and unnecessary loss of time.

But if the person complaining of the want money, has been brought up to no trade, the him consider to what kind of life his genius  natural disposition does most of all incline  If he cannot find employment in his own  to suit his genius, (which can scarcely he  in a country sueh as Great Britain,  arts and seienee are carried to the greatest, and where a person of any genius,  little genius, may find employment) let him