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 atisfied with a leathern pure is not eaily a pendthrift, but one that, as the aying goes, knows how to keep his pure-trings tight;—now your tranparent pures of ilk or gold twit are never out of the fingers of your prodigals; and then what wonder if they run out like a leaky cak at an hundred holes? and though you pour ever o much in, till they will always be empty.

My father earnetly inculcated into all his even lads this golden maxim: Children, whatever you do, do it in earnet. So I drove on my trade with great zeal and pereverance, but without bettering my condition. There came a dear time, war, trouble, and counterfeit coin, into the country. My brother pure-makers thought, Bae coin, bae goods; but I aid to myelf, Honety is always the bet policy; o I parted with true wares for fale money; laboured hard, till I brought myelf to the beggar’s crutch; was expelled from 6