62 ways of making money. Sept. 11, 
visit. The invitation was too flattering for me to 
refuse it; and I, with much satisfaction to myself, 
consented. ' 
While my friend was fhaving, to accompany me 
in an excursion to see the improvements in his glebe, 
I took up a book to glance at. It was the eighth 
volume of your Bee ; and as chance would have it, 
the first thing that turned up to me there, was the 
letter of Juridicus to Mr Semple. (Bee vol. 8. p. 318.) 
which was exactly to my purpose. Verily said I to 
myself, this man hath found out one, and not one of 
the worst of the ‘* many inventions” for making 
money. What a dunce of a fellow am | that I fhould 
not have thought of this. You are right, said I, 
Mr Juridicus, for it is only two days since [ was 
hospitably entertained, almost with a royal profusi- 
on, by a man who lived in a stile of sumptuosity that 
T had never before witnefsed, whose generous C—-rs 
a very fhort time ago, thankfully accepted of two 
fhillings, or half a crown a pound, in full of all de- 
mands ; no doubt from the noble principle that they 
might enable him to live in future, not like a gen- 
tleman, which he did before; but like a nobleman, 
-which hé now does ! Great is the magnanimity and 
generosity of the Britifh nation!!! 
Well, but thinks J, this invention, excellent as it is, 
will not suit me. J] cannot get even credit for a good 
new coat; I must therefore think of some other in- 
vention, The thovght has not gone out of my head 
all day. In the course of my meditations, I recollec- 
ted that once upon atime, now a good while ago, 
we, poor devils of schoolmasters, thinking to get 
