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Article FOR THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE. ← Page 2 of 2 Article RELIEVING THE POOR. Page 1 of 2 →
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For The Freemasons' Magazine.
p leasing to the fair sex . Such a one will not go up gracefully to a bewitching young lady , chuck her under the chin , and , with a languishing look aud significant hum , " How happy will the young man be "Who calls this nymph his own , O may her choice be fix'd on ( having ) Fal de ral , " & c .
Relieving The Poor.
RELIEVING THE POOR .
AN EFFECTUAL METHOD OF
MANY plans are laid , and schemes proposed , to keep our poo ? from perishing for want of bread ; but , alas ! that is the lowest link in the chain of charity : indeed , I doubt whether it be any charity , except to ourselves ^—to prevent their rising and knocking us on the head . It is commonly said , charity begins at home— -1 am * sure such charity ends at home ,
True charity to the poor honest labourer is , to enable him to be * : come rich ; I mean comparatively rich . Let us suppose a labourer with seven children to earn nine shillings a-week , and my charity leads me to add to it half a crown ; it will enable him to purchase a little piece of bacon . Suppose I give it every week ; at the year ' s end I shall have given the poor man seven guineas wanting one shilling ,
and he will be in just the same state at the year ' s end , still a poor , starving cottager in a little hole in a village with two or three alehouses , the bane of the labourer and his family . Now , suppose the poor man in a cottage with a little orchard , on or ; i . « r a common , no vile alehouse near , and of these seven guineas I lay out five in buying him a little Welsh cow ; one guinea in buying him a young open sow ; the
remainder of the seven guineas in two geese and a gander , a few hens and a cock ; all of which , if the English had as much acuteness as the Irish and Scotch , would be supported on the common the whole summer and great part of the winter ; the cow , God sending good luck , will produce a calf , which , if managed as by the excellent farmers and labourers in Kent , will suck the whole of the cow ' s milk only the last fortniht before it goes off to the butcher ; when gone
g , butter will be made ; the skimmed milk will more than half keep the family ; the butter-milk will help to keep the sow ; the poor woman will be able to raise six shillings to buy a bushel of malt , which , as was lately shewn in the St . James ' s Chronicle , by some benevolent person , will make iwenty-t-wb gallons of beer for the poor man , without going to an alehouse ; the grains will benefit the sow . Every
one that has lived in the country knows that geese always keep themselves through the whole year , except the hen-geese whilst sitting , I once knew a poor oldtwidow , who , living in a single room up one ? pair of stairs , supported herself comfortably by keeping geese on an adjacent common , the amiable minister of the parish allowing her to coop the old goose in the church-yard about five days after the young
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
For The Freemasons' Magazine.
p leasing to the fair sex . Such a one will not go up gracefully to a bewitching young lady , chuck her under the chin , and , with a languishing look aud significant hum , " How happy will the young man be "Who calls this nymph his own , O may her choice be fix'd on ( having ) Fal de ral , " & c .
Relieving The Poor.
RELIEVING THE POOR .
AN EFFECTUAL METHOD OF
MANY plans are laid , and schemes proposed , to keep our poo ? from perishing for want of bread ; but , alas ! that is the lowest link in the chain of charity : indeed , I doubt whether it be any charity , except to ourselves ^—to prevent their rising and knocking us on the head . It is commonly said , charity begins at home— -1 am * sure such charity ends at home ,
True charity to the poor honest labourer is , to enable him to be * : come rich ; I mean comparatively rich . Let us suppose a labourer with seven children to earn nine shillings a-week , and my charity leads me to add to it half a crown ; it will enable him to purchase a little piece of bacon . Suppose I give it every week ; at the year ' s end I shall have given the poor man seven guineas wanting one shilling ,
and he will be in just the same state at the year ' s end , still a poor , starving cottager in a little hole in a village with two or three alehouses , the bane of the labourer and his family . Now , suppose the poor man in a cottage with a little orchard , on or ; i . « r a common , no vile alehouse near , and of these seven guineas I lay out five in buying him a little Welsh cow ; one guinea in buying him a young open sow ; the
remainder of the seven guineas in two geese and a gander , a few hens and a cock ; all of which , if the English had as much acuteness as the Irish and Scotch , would be supported on the common the whole summer and great part of the winter ; the cow , God sending good luck , will produce a calf , which , if managed as by the excellent farmers and labourers in Kent , will suck the whole of the cow ' s milk only the last fortniht before it goes off to the butcher ; when gone
g , butter will be made ; the skimmed milk will more than half keep the family ; the butter-milk will help to keep the sow ; the poor woman will be able to raise six shillings to buy a bushel of malt , which , as was lately shewn in the St . James ' s Chronicle , by some benevolent person , will make iwenty-t-wb gallons of beer for the poor man , without going to an alehouse ; the grains will benefit the sow . Every
one that has lived in the country knows that geese always keep themselves through the whole year , except the hen-geese whilst sitting , I once knew a poor oldtwidow , who , living in a single room up one ? pair of stairs , supported herself comfortably by keeping geese on an adjacent common , the amiable minister of the parish allowing her to coop the old goose in the church-yard about five days after the young