People with small means sometimes have generous impulses in connection with money--rich people, _never_.

My lord, with forty thousand a year; Sir John, with property in half a dozen counties--those are the men who never forgive the genteel beggar for swindling them out of a sovereign; those are the men who send for the mendicity officers; those are the men who take care of their money.

Who are the people who lose shillings and sixpences by sheer thoughtlessness?
Servants and small clerks, to whom shillings and sixpences are of consequence.

Did you ever hear of Rothschild or Baring dropping a fourpenny-piece down a gutter-hole?
Fourpence in Rothschild's pocket is safer than fourpence in the pocket of that woman who is crying stale shrimps in Skeldergate at this moment.

Fortified by these sound principles, enlightened by the stores of written information in my commercial library, I have ranged through the population for years past, and have raised my charitable crops with the most cheering success.
Here, in book Number One, are all my Districts mapped out, with the prevalent public feeling to appeal to in each: Military District, Clerical District, Agricultural District; et cetera, et cetera.