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whole cart-loads, without any profpeft of fale ; and 

 yet you are going to print more ; depend upon it, 

 if you go on in this, manner, we (hall foon be reduc- 

 ed to beggary. — Befides, I hear this is a vile b y 



book, which no decent perfon will ever venture to 

 look at. I wonder what infatuation could poflTel's 

 you, when you thought of engaging in fuch a ruin- 

 ous 'undertaking." — All this, and much more, he 

 liftened to without makmg much reply ; for Mr. An- 

 drew wa? a man of a meek and patient difpofition. But 

 being fo far engaged, he refolved to go on. The book 

 at length was publiflW ; and the demand for it was 

 fo greac, that \n the courfe of one week, the whole 

 edition was fold. He took care to have another ready 

 to anfwer the demand, in a fhort time. This alfo wa» 

 fold, ^nd another ftill. In fnort, upon fettling ac- 

 counts, he found, that in the courfe of one month, he 

 had cleared by the fale of tliis book alone, no lefs than 

 SEVEN HUNDRED GUINEAS. On that oocafion, with a 

 view to give an agreeable furprife to his wife, he put 

 all the money he had got into a green purfe, and car- 

 ried it home. After dinner, which, at that time of 

 his life, ufed to be a very moderate one, and his com- 

 mon allowance of drink, a pol of fmall beer, he pulled 

 out his purfe, and fpread the guineas upon the table ; 

 faying, at the fame time, that lince he had brought all 

 this money, he thought they might now indulge them- 

 felves with a pot ot porter, inftead of fmall beer. His 

 wife, in amaz-ement, alked where in the naiTie of won- 

 der he had come by all that money. All of it, faid 

 he, my dear, from the fale of that book for which you 

 rated me fo foundly a few weeks ago. Is it poflible, faid 



flie?- Nothing more certain, he replied. Then, faid flie, 



praifed be God for fuch a lucky difcovery ; could we 

 find twenty fuch books, our fortune might be made. 



I leave you, Mr. Editor, to make what ule of this 

 jou pleafe; — ^and am, fir, your fincere wcU-wiflier, 



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