cannot say that it was you a at the empty you however as you are so industrious i simply say it would be a thousand to take you from it an hush i nick i love industry in my heart and i always encourage it so work away it s not often you spend your time so tm afraid if you weren t at that you d be worse employed bill have said the you wouldn t go to lay more weight on a falling man you know you t disgrace your character by such a piece of as keeping an gentleman advanced in years at such an and job as this generosity s your top virtue bill not but that have many other excellent ones as well as that among which as you say yourself i reckon industry but still it is in generosity you shine come bill bright and release me the terms you you re above terms william a generous fellow like you never thinks of terms good bye old gentleman i said bill very coolly til drop in to see you once a month � no no bill you � a � a � you excellent worthy delightful fellow not so fast not so fast come name your terms you � my dear bill name your terms seven years more i agree but and the same supply of cash as before down on the nail here very good very good you re rather simple bill soft i must confess well no matter i shall yet turn the � a � hem you are an exceedingly simple fellow bill still there will come a day my dear bill � there wiu � do you you another word and i double the terms william � is latin for a seven years more of grace and the same measure of the needful that i got before ay or no � d g the � c f grace bill ay ay ay i there the accept the terms o blood i the rascal � of grace i bill i well now drop the hammer and vanish says but what would you think to take this while yon stay and me a eh why in such a hurry he added seeing that satan withdrew in double quick time f he shouted come back you forgot something i and when the old gentleman looked behind him shook the hammer at him on which he vanished altogether now got into his old courses and what shows the kind of people the world is made of he also took up with his old company when they saw that he had the money once more and was it about him in all directions they immediately began to find excuses for his former extravagance say what you will said one s a spirited fellow and like a prince he s as hospitable a in his own house or out of it os ever lived said another � his only is observed a third that he is if any thing too generous and doesn t know the value of money his fault s on the right side however he has the in him said a fourth keeps a capital table prime and a standing welcome for his friends why said a fifth if he doesn t enjoy his money while he lives he won t when he s dead so more power to him and a wider to his purse indeed the very persons who were themselves at his expense despised him at heart they knew very well however how to take him on the weak side praise his generosity and he would do anything call him a man of spirit and you might him to his face sometimes he w ould toss a purse of guineas to this another to that a third to a bully and a fourth to some broken down � an h and all to convince them that he was a sterling friend a man of and liberality but never was he known to help a virtuous and struggling family � to assist the widow or the or to do any other act that was truly useful it is to be supposed the reason of this was that as he spent it as most of the world do in the service of the devil by whose aid he got it he was prevented om turning it to a good account between you and me dear reader there are more persons acting after bill s fashion in the same world than you dream about when his money was out again his friends served him the same game once more no sooner did his poverty become plain than the began to be troubled with small fits of modesty such as an to come to his place when there was no longer anything to be got there a kind of virgin prevented them from speaking to him w hen they saw him getting out on the side of his clothes of them would turn away firom him in the prettiest and most delicate manner when they thought he wanted to borrow money firom them � all for fear of putting him to the blush by asking it others again when they saw him coming towards their houses about dinner hour would become so confused from mere gratitude as to think themselves in another place and their servants seized as it were with the same feeling would tell bill that their masters were not at home at length after travelling the same as before bill was forced to himself a last remedy to the in other words he found that there is r all nothing in this world that a man can rely on so firmly and surely as his own industry bill however wanted the organ of common sense for his experience � and it was sharp enough to leave an impression � ran ofi 