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It may be objedled that a man in narrow circum- 

 ftances cannot purchafe cafks, and the neceffary 

 apparatus for felling beer in barrels, or half or quar- 

 ter barrels, more efpecially as the expence of deli- 

 very would be a ferious one, and the rifque of not 

 being paid more ferious flill. But if only one per- 

 fpn in a fmall compadl village, wbofe houfe fhould 

 be favpurable to the undertaking, or two or more in 

 ac large and extenfive paridi, were once eftablifhcd, 

 with a fmall flock of cafks, and to fell the beer to 

 thofe who fhould fetch it by the quart or gallon, it 

 feems probable that fuch a plan would be found 

 very convenient to the poor> who might be fur- 

 niflied jufl as they may happen to want, and in a 

 manner the moft compatible with their circum- 

 fiances. A poor family, which, without fuch a 

 plan, could not confiflently with their income have 

 any beer at^ al), might on this lay out from one 

 penny to fix-pence without trouble orlofs of time ^ 

 and having this beverage would be lefs likely to 

 make a common beverage of tea^ which, with the 

 expence of refined fugar and butter, is enough to 

 impoverifh the parents,. as well as to enervate their 

 offspring. But fuch an eflabiifhment of breweries, 

 jf ufeful at all, as it is prefumed they would be, 

 mufl fucceed befl under the advice and encourage- 

 ment of principal men in a parifh, who will be the 



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