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spun, it should be accompanied with a printed spin-ticket, 

 and entered in a table to be kept for that purpose, and, 

 when it is returned spun, an abstract of the spin-ticket 

 with the name of the spinner, or the spin-ticket itself, 

 should be bound up with the bundle of yarn, in order 

 that any frauds committed by the spinner, in reeling, or 

 in any other way, which may be discovered upon wind- 

 ing off the yarn, may be brought home to the person who 

 committed them. When it is known that such effectual 

 precautions to detect frauds are used, no farther at- 

 tempts will be made to defraud ; and a most important 

 point indeed will be gained, and one which will most 

 powerfully tend to mend the morals of the poor, and 

 restore peace to their minds. When, by rendering it 

 evidently impossible for them to escape detection, they 

 are brought to give up all thoughts of cheating and de- 

 ceiving, they will then be capable of application and 

 enjoying real happiness, and with open and placid 

 countenances will look every one full in the face who 

 accosts them ; but, as long as they are under the in- 

 fluence of temptation, as long as their minds are de- 

 graded by conscious guilt, and continually agitated by 

 schemes of prosecuting their fraudulent practices, they 

 are as incapable of enjoying peace or contentment as 

 they are of being useful members of society. 



Hence the extreme cruelty of an ill-judged appear- 

 ance of confidence, or careless neglect of precautions in 

 regard to those employed in places of trust, who may 

 be exposed to temptations to defraud. 



The prayer which cannot be enough admired, or too 

 often repeated, " lead us not into temptation," was 

 certainly dictated by infinite wisdom and goodness ; and 

 it should ever be borne in mind by those who are placed 



