17093. ways of making money. Gr 
past, in hopes of getting some little thing laid up 
for a sore heel in my old age ; but in vain: for af- 
ter having got my old \ig new drefsed, my clothes 
put into the best trim ] could, to make a few visits 
during the vacance, and a pair of new fhoes to car- 
ry me along the road, I find there is no danger that 
my pockets will be worn out with the weight of my 
purse. 
It was an old practice with my grandmother, who 
lived to a good old age, to try to discover her fortune 
by the sortes virgilhane ; that 15, when fhe wifhed to 
know what would be the result of any arduous in- 
terprise, fhe used to open her bible at random, and 
observe what was the first sentence that catched her 
eye; from the tenor of which fhe augured the succefs 
of her plan. Though I believe in no such heathen- 
ifh tricks, I learned such a practice of doing this 
when young, that I sometimes, even yet, do it by a 
sort of involuntary impulse. The sentence I have 
chosen as a motto turned up thus to me this morning, 
as I was meditating upon the plansT fhould adopt 
for bettering my fortune in future. But what 
on thinks |, can I fall upon for this purpose ? 
Now, , I had been so otten foiled in every at- 
tempt 7 had mad-, chat I could not think of any 
thing that had tye smallest prospect of succefs ; and 
I walked forward :uminating upon the subject, as I 
went to brevkiast with a worthy clergyman, who al- 
Ways receives me with great kindnefs on my an- 
nual circuit. At breakfast he kindly invited me 
to spend the day with him, observing that [ thould 
pe in time enough tomorrow to the place of my next 
