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proper extenfion of confidence; though ta- 

 ken in the aggregate, the proportion is fo 

 exceedingly inferior, that well-bought expe- 

 rience amply juftifies me in the opinion, 

 that the greater number of dependents there 

 are retained in any one family, (however 

 fmall the fcale, or extensive the eftabhfh- 

 ment,) the more the employer becomes the 

 hourly prey of plunder and impofition. 



Habituated to a belief of this fad:, which 

 it is beyond the power of either argument 

 or fophiftry to difprove, I have long held 

 in retention two excellent maxims (originally 

 from high authority) that conftitute a ufeful 

 TRIO, in conjunction with the emphatical 

 ?RECEPT of the farmer. That of *' never 

 putting off till to-morrow what can be done 

 to-day -/* or, ** letting another do for you 

 what you can do for yourfelf,''* Thefe rules 

 conditionally adhered to, as much as cir- 

 cumftances, fituation, and relative confide- 

 rations will admit, would, I believe, have 

 faved from ruin, thousands who have been 

 depredated by the villainy of fervants, and 

 now lament, in the moft diftrefling indi- 

 gence, their former inadvertency. 



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