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William Ready. WELL, Bob, suppose we have the other pot, to drink success to trade; master seems in good spirits, and it is but just gone ten: and besides, we can lie an hour longer for it in the morning.

Robert Wise. No; I cannot stay any longer: and as for the other pot, it is that which does all the mischief; for I have often seen, that as fast as the beer runs in, common sense runs out, until a man becomes as light, and noisy, and full of vaporous fumes, as the barrel he has just emptied. Besides, I have got a wife and family to provide for at home, and it will be eleven o'clock now before we have made our marketing. As to drinking success to trade, I think trade is likely to flourish most, when the least drink is going forward. And now we are upon the subject, I wish our master would pay the men at home, and not bring them to the public house; they can find the way there fast enough without that. This is the worst fault I have to find with your master - he pays his men so late on the Saturday night, that one finds it hard work to get one's little matters all settled, without breaking in upon the sabbath-day. I have often told him so, but he does not seem to take much concern about it.

Wm. Breaking in upon the Sabbath-day! - Why I always thought that Sunday was intended as a day of rest and recreation. We are