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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

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LONDON : Article 2
TO READERS, CORRESPONDENTS , &c. Article 3
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PRICES OF BINDING PER VOLUME. Article 3
THE MAN OF PLEASURE. Article 4
THOUGHTS SUGGESTED BY BEADING A TREATISE ON THE "ORIGIN OF LANGUAGE." Article 6
TO THE EDITOR. Article 8
ON SEDUCTION. Article 9
MASONIC EXTRACT FROM A TOUR IN SCOTLAND. Article 10
TO THE PROPRIETOR OF THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE. Article 11
FUNERAL ORATION Article 11
ANECDOTE Article 14
TO THE EDITOR. Article 16
A CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF THE GRAND MASTERS OF THE KNIGHTS HOSPITALLERS Article 17
UNCOMMON SENTENCE: Article 19
OLD LAWS. Article 20
ANECDOTE OF THE LATE EARL MOUNT EDGECUMBE. Article 20
DETACHED SENTIMENTS.No. III. Article 21
ANECDOTES OF THE VERY ANCIENT LODGE OF KILWINNING. Article 22
INSCRIPTIONS Article 23
SLAVE COUNTRIES. Article 24
A CURE FOR A SORE THROAT. Article 28
CEREMONY OF A GENTOO WOMAN Article 29
DISSERTATIONS ON THE POLITE ARTS. Article 31
THE STAGE. Article 36
A LEAP YEAR LOST. Article 37
FOR THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE. Article 38
RELIEVING THE POOR. Article 39
CHARACTER OF A GENTLEMAN. Article 40
FOR THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE. Article 42
TO THE EDITOR. Article 43
REAL PHILOSOPHER, Article 44
A CHINESE TALE. Article 46
TO THE EDITOR. Article 48
Untitled Article 48
AN EASY METHOD OF DESTROYING BUGS. Article 48
FOR THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE. Article 49
INSTANCE OF DELICACY AND PRESENCE OF MIND. Article 49
Untitled Article 49
MASONIC INTELLIGENCE. Article 50
STRICTURES ON PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS. Article 51
POETRY. Article 54
MASONIC ODE. Article 54
ON THE EPICUREAN, STOIC, AND CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHY. Article 55
ATHEISM Article 55
IRREGULAR ODE TO EVENING. Article 56
ELEGIAC STANZAS. Article 56
SONNET TO DELIA. Article 57
PETER PINDAR TO DR. SAYERS, Article 58
ON FORTITUDE. Article 60
SONG. Article 60
MONTHLY CHRONICLE. Article 61
PROMOTIONS. Article 71
Untitled Article 72
Untitled Article 72
Untitled Article 72
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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

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