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a small fund for our widows, collected our mites, and 
put them into the hand of a good man, to attend our 
interest in parliament on that businefs; but this 
worthy man, after hearing how things went above, 
and no doubt agreeing in opinion with your corres= 
pondent Thunderproof, that that house was ‘* no 
better than it fhould be,” judged that fhould the mo- 
ney be laid out there, it would only be ‘* like butter 
_ in the black dog’s hafs,” and wisely thought it might 
be much more beneficially applied to another purpose ; 
so, after having lodged the money safely, in his 
own pocket, he set out for the land of promise; where, 
by the help of our mutes, it has proved to him a land . 
overflowing with milk and honey. Yea, verily said I 
again to myself, this is alsoone of the ‘* many inventi- 
ons,” for making money, that man. hath found out, 
and a good invention too. 
One thought brings on another. ReForm said I to 
myself, is an excellent word for collecting gulls toge- 
ther ; and as no kind of reform, you know, can be 
brought about without money, and money cannot be 
applied without somebody to collect it. Now, might 
not a man who has a tolerable noddle for inventions, 
contrive to sound an alarm,—point out in strong lan- 
guage the necefsity of a reform of one kind or other, 
it matters not what ;—invite people to afsociate, indis-~ 
tricts, in cities, in parifhes, for this purpose ;— get 
himself appointed secretary, to whom all collections 
must be sent ; and then, ifthe sums levied be abun- 
dant, - - he is a dunce indeed who does not 
know what to do with it. I then recollected the 
afsociation about the bill of rights, and remember 
