anour. He should make it
the interest and the pleasure of the customer to come to his shop. If
he does this, he will form the very best "connections," and so long as
he continues this system of business, they will never desert him.

2608. Duties of a Shopkeeper.

He should cheerfully render his best labour and knowledge to serve
those who approach his counter, and place confidence in his
transactions; make himself alike to rich and poor, but never resort to
mean subterfuge and deception to gain approbation and support. He
should be frugal in his expenditure, that in deriving profits from
trade, he may not trespass unduly upon the interest of others; he
should so hold the balance between man and man that he should feel
nothing to reprove his conscience when the day comes for him to repose
from his labours and live upon the fruits of his industry. Let the
public discover such a man, and they will flock around him for their
own sakes.

2609. A Very Useful Book.

A very useful book, "The Handy Book of Shopkeeping, Shopkeeper's
Guide" [1] (published at one shilling), enlarges upon these subjects
in a very able manner, and gives most useful hints to people in every
dapartment of trade.

[Footnote 1: Houlston and Sons, London.]

2610. Early Rising.

The difference between rising every morning at six and eight, in the
course of forty years, amounts to 29,200 hours, or three years one
hundred and twenty-one days and sixteen hours, which are equal to
eight hours a day for exactly ten years So that rising at six will be
the same as if ten years of life (a weighty consideration) were added,
wherein we may command eight hours every day for the cultivation of
our minds and the despatch of business.

2611. Frugality.

i. The great philosopher, Dr. Franklin, inspired the mouthpiece of
his own eloquence, "Poor Richard," with "many a gem of purest ray
serene," encased in the homely garb of proverbial truisms. On the
subject of frugality we cannot do better than take the worthy Mentor
for our text, and from it address our remarks. A man may, if he
knows not how to save as he gets, "keep his nose all his life to the
grindstone, and die not worth a groat at last. A fat kitchen makes a
lean will."

"Many estates are spent in getting,
Since women for tea forsook spinning and knitting,
And men for punch forsook hewing a