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the
WAYtoWEALTH,
as clearly shwen in the
Preface of an old Pensylvania Almanack,
intitled,
Poor Richard Improved.
Courteous Reader,
I HAVE heard, that nothing gives an author so great pleasure, as to find his works respectfully quoted by others. Judge, then, how much I must have been gratified by an incident I am going to relate to you. I stopped my horse lately, where a great number of people were collected, at an auction of merchants goods. The hour of the sale not being come, they were conversing on the badness of the
times; and one of the company called to a plain, clean old man, with white locks, Pray,
B
Father
