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apprehend, means when what is given and what is 

 expected is of the same kind; for it in no shape 

 follows that where much money is given, much sense 

 is to be expected in return. Here charity again 

 teaches us not to be unreasonable in our expectations 

 of sense ; and charity has had too many lessons to be 

 very sanguine in her anticipations of any great return 

 in money for her use. 



Then there are mystification tricks. Now these are 

 in a great degree harmless, and perhaps even justi- 

 fiable ; for, as few men can learn any business with- 

 out a considerable outlay of time and money, it is 

 natural enough that they should wish to make their 

 business appear as complicated and as difficult of 

 attainment as possible. "Live, and let live," is a 

 common if not a very refined mode of expressing a 

 particular feeling among persons connected with 

 trade. This, I believe, means that the carpenter should 

 not do a job that it is the particular province of the 

 joiner to execute ; in short, that no trade should inter- 

 fere with another. So the tradesman will, in the ge- 

 nerosity of his heart, allow his customers to live ; and 

 so long as he gets anything out of them, he is quite 

 desirous that they should live ; but unless the cus- 

 tomer takes care of himself, the other will leave him 

 but very little to live upon. 



Let a gentleman, or any man not engaged in a trade, 

 attempt to do or get done anything without the im- 

 mediate interference of "the trade," every earthly 

 manoeuvre will be put in practice to thwart him ; the 

 very day-labourer will be influenced by the "live and 

 let live" feeling, and will do about one-fifth of the 

 same labour in the day for the gentleman, to that he 

 would do for the tradesman ; and as to the former 



