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friend, in the city of Saint John, who wanted 

 some goats, to keep. 



200. This fellow's conduct is an epitome of 

 that widely spread selfishness which is practised, 

 not only without })lushin^, but with boasting, 

 under the pretence of taking care of wife and 

 family y which forms the sole defence of thou- 

 sands upon thousands of monopolisers, extor- 

 tioners, peculators,'userers, and misers ; who, ob- 

 serve, are, all this while, only gratifying their oion 

 avaricious disposition, and who resort to the wife 

 and family, to the petticoat and the cradle, to 

 hide the real truth from the world. When I used 

 to tell the young fellows, in Hampshire, who 

 wanted to get out of paying for " love children/' 

 that they were '' worse that infidels," and they 

 used to answer, that they had done nothing so 

 very rare, I used to say, that it was the not pro- 

 viding for their oivn which constituted the great- 

 est part of the crime ; and here, if they had read 

 the pension and sinecure list, as I had, they might 

 have triumphantly cited the example of their 

 betters 3 for, in those lists, there are ivhole broods^ 

 mother and children, females as well as males, 

 foisted upon the people for support ! These 

 '^ higher orders'' do not, 1 suppose, regard Saint 

 Paul as having written /or them*, for they abso- 

 lutely reverse the precept, and not only do not 

 provide for their own, but make others, and 



