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we could reduce our aggregate of merchants of all grades 

 by three-fourths, the remainder might thrive, while selling 

 goods at one-half the profit now charged. And yet we be 

 lieve the world never afforded larger or better opportuni 

 ties for acquiring wealth than it does just now ; and that 

 there is no better place for trying than our own country 

 affords. Let us give a few hints on this head to those who 

 may need them. 



&quot; We will suppose the inquirer to be a young man of fif 

 teen to five-and -twenty, whose educational advantages have 

 been meager, and who is not thoroughly qualified for any 

 field of productive labor. How shall he set about getting 

 rich ? We say : 



&quot; 1. Consider whether you would prefer to be a farmer or 

 an artisan ; and, if the latter, of what trade. Having de 

 cided, keep your eye steadily on the pursuit you prefer, and 

 find employment in it so soon as possible doing meantime 

 the best thing that offers, though that be chopping wood at 

 two shillings per cord. Never be idle a secular day when 

 there is any work to be had ; and if there is absolutely 

 none where you now are, keep in motion towards a less 

 crowded locality till you find some. Having found work, 

 stick to it heartily and faithfully, and, if it pays you but 

 twenty-five cents per day, contrive some way of living upon 

 twenty. 



&quot; Whenever you can find employment in the pursuit you 

 mean to live by, accept it, unless withheld by the necessity 

 of earning more at something else in order to pay your debts. 

 And, in deciding where first to follow so as in time to master 

 the calling you have chosen, prefer the place where you can 

 learn most and fastest to that where you can obtain the 

 largest pay. 



&quot; 3. Be sure that work and thought go together. Keep 

 your eyes wide open and your mind intent and active. Re- 



