working people as Sunday: the only difference is, that instead of employing it cheaply at church, they are wasting it expensively at the alehouse. I am, Sir, your's, &c. [Footnote r: This applies not so much to farmers' workmen as to _manufacturers'_ labourers.] _Extract from Dr. Franklin's remarks on Luxury, Idleness, and Industry._ Some of those who grow rich will be prudent, live within bounds, and preserve what they have gained for their posterity: others, fond of shewing their wealth, will be extravagant, and ruin themselves. Laws cannot prevent this; and perhaps it is not always an evil to the public. A shilling spent idly by a fool, may be picked up by a wiser person, who knows better what to do with it. It is therefore not lost. A vain silly fellow builds a fine house, furnishes it richly, lives in it expensively, and in a few years ruins himself: but the masons, carpenters, smiths, and other honest tradesmen, have been by his employ assisted in maintaining and raising their families: the farmer has been paid for his labour, and encouraged, and the estate is now in better hands. In some cases, indeed, certain modes of luxury may be a public evil, in the same manner as it is a private one. THE END. * * * * * [Transcriber's Note: Older form of contractions retained. Spelling "aground" and "a-ground" used in the text. Spelling "ale-house" and "alehouse" used in the text. Spelling "bed-side" and "bedside" used in the text. Spelling "gate-way" and "gateway" used in the text. Spelling "benefited" and "benefitted" used in the text. Spelling "licence" and "license" used in the text. Spelling "parish officer" and "parish-officer" used in text. Page 31. Letter 'f' added to text (as a matter of). Page 47. Comma, blank space and double quote removed after 'answered'. (Wildgoose answered that as for the penalty,) Page 89. Quotation marks around 'Mrs. Hawker' removed. (No, indeed now, Mrs. Hawker, you must) Page 109. The notation '[oe]' is used for the oe-ligature. Page 118. Word 'carrried' changed to 'carried' (accordingly carried him). Page 120. Word 'matress' spelling retained. May be period correct. Page 137. Word 'unfrequently' spelling retained. May be period correct. Page 138. Closing double-quote added. (as a fit man to keep it.) Page 145. Word 'intrusted' spelling retained. May be period correct.]