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 cloathed, better fed, happier, and In eafier 

 circumftances than when prices are low ; 

 for at fuch times they never worked fix 

 days in a week ; numbers not five, nor 

 even four ; the idle time fpent at alehoufes, 

 or at receptacles of low diverfion ; the re- 

 mainder of their time of little value ; for 

 it is a known fadl, that a man who fi:icks 

 to his loom regularly, will perform his 

 work much better, and do more of it, than 

 one who idles away half his time, and 

 efpeclally in drunkennefs. 



The mafter manufadlurers of Manchejler 

 wifh that prices might always be high 

 enough to enforce a general induftry , to 

 keep the hands employed fix days for a 

 week's work; as they find that even one idle 

 day, in the chance of it's being a drunken 

 one, damages all the other five, or rather 

 the work of them. But at the fame time 

 they are fenfible, that provifions may be too 

 high, and that the poor may fuffer in fpite 

 of the utmoft induftry 5 the line of fepo/- 

 ration is too delicate to attempt the draw- 

 ing : but it is well known by every mafter 

 manufacturer at Manchejler, that the work- 

 men who are induftrious, rather more fo 

 than the common run of their brethren, 



have 



