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Show "Mayan:- k." ¢. w -...., 'K [24] THE WAY [G.P.] 25 ‘ able to pay them? What would on adv' ‘ to ?'----FatherAém/mm flood up? and replieIds ‘ If you would have my advice, I will give it TO WEALTH, VA: clearly fbewn in the Preface of an old Penn ‘ you in Ihort; "for a word to the wife is {ylvania Alma/tack, intitled, POOR RICHARD :‘ enough," as Poor Rickard fays.' They joined, tn defiring him to {peak his mind, and gather- IMPROVED. *5 mg round him, he proceeded as follows: ‘ FRIENDS, fays he, the taxes are, indeed ' very heavy, and, 1f thofe laid on by the go: Courteous Reader, HAVE heard, that nothing gives an author {0 - THE WAY To WEALTH. ‘ vernment were the only ones we had to pay' ‘ we might more eafily difcharge them ; but Wt; great pleafure, as to find his works refpeétfully quoted by others. Judge, ‘then, how much I mull have been gratified by an incident I am going to relate to you. I {topped my horfe lately, where agreat number of people were collected, at an auclion of merchants goods. The hour of the {ale not being come, they were converfing on the badnefs of the times ; and one of the company called to a plain, clean Old Man, with white locks, ‘ Pray, Fat/Jer Abrabam, what think ‘ you of the times? Will not thefe heavy taxes f quite ruin the country? How [hall we ever be [* Dr.Franklin, as I have been made to underflaud, for many years publilhed the Pngfivlqmnia Almanack, called Paar Rirbara' [Sauna/err], and furnilhed it with various {entences and proverbs, which had principal relation to the topics of " indultry, attention " to one's own bufinefs, and frugality." The whole or chief of thefe fentences and proverbs, he .at lafi collefted and digefled in the above general preface, which his countrymen read with much avidity and profit. M. Dubaurg, the French tranflator of Dr. Franklin's works, entitles this Penfylvanian Almanack, Le paurvre Henri a fin aifl; to avoid thejeu d: mats, in cafe he had written Pau'vre Richard. E.] ‘ able ‘ have many others, and much more grievous to ‘ fome of us. We are taxed twice as much b ‘ our idlenefs, three times as much by our pridey ‘ and four times as much by our folly- and ‘ from thefe taxes the commiflioncrs cannot cafe ‘ or deliver us, by allowing an abatement ‘ Idowever, let us hearken to good advice and ‘ iomething may be done for us; "God helps :‘fthem that help themfelves," as Poor Ric/yard ays. ‘ I. It would be thought a hard government that ¢ fhould tax its people one tenth part of their : t1me, to be employed in its fervice: But idlenefs taxes many of us much more; floth, by ‘ bringing on difeafes, abfolutely {hortens life. " Sloth, like tuft, confumes falter than labour " wears, while the ufed key is always briOht," ‘ as Poor Rz'cbm‘d fays. " But doft thouolove " life, then do not fquander time, for that is the " fluff |