To leave their shops, and quit their counters, in the proper seasons for their attendance there, would be a preposterous negligence, would be going out of business to gain business, and would be cheating themselves, instead of improving themselves.

The proper hours of business are sacred to the shop and the warehouse.

He that goes out of the order of trade, let the pretence of business be what it will, loses his business, not increases it; and will, if continued, lose the credit of his conduct in business also.
FOOTNOTES: [10] [The story of the political upholsterer forms the subject of several amusing papers by Addison in the _Tatler_.] [11] [To stand in the presence of a prince is the highest mark of honour in the east, as to sit is with us.].