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    > other hand , hero and there are to lie found mixing withand associated in business with

    them , young , men who are not honest and who are not straihtforward . These are generally

    to be distinguished g by a somewhat too ostentatious assumption of the virtues which they

    • 1 . •»* do not possess . I am sorry to be of opinion that this leaven

    of black sheep , though , I hope , small at presentis sadly on the increaseand the

    x , % j , reason is not very far to seek . The ^^ temptations which young % / * Z ? men meet with nbw-a-day * rs

    to spend money are certainly tenfold what they were thirty or forty years ago . Then , a

    mutton chop and a cup of coffee , or a glass of beerat Dolly ' s , or the like coffee or chop houses , were the usual fare for assistants in the * Row '

    and the _ Bk nei ghbou BB ^» rhood Bh ^ K . ! N c ^ BB " ow , thej a BB ) are invited into places unheard of in those clays :

    showy saloons at every corner , where an array of coloured glasses and pretty bottles suggest

    wine and champagne , ~ where the homely glass of beer or cup of coffee used to suffice . Then

    of late years there have sprung up numberless billiard and betting roomsdancing academies ,

    and music a halls ^ B ^ ^ k , alj ^ H ^ of ^^ which ^ ^ , are well ^ B V calculated BA BB ^ Bh to ensnare foolish young fellows into spending

    the money which cjoes not belong to them ; forwhilst these attractions are so rifethe , ,

    legitimate means of indulging in them are not increasedseeing that the supply of money in

    the shap , e of . t- wages J or salary -i « L m / necessaril v y remains about the same as it ever was , and

    young men who have not sense enough to limit their desires to their income are easily led to

    forget that there is a broad and distinct line between the two small words meum and tnum ,

    and so to regard their employer ' s property as their own , and to use it accordingly . This

    unfortunate forgetfulness , as regards small things at firstsoon grows by what it feeds

    uponl » and becomes , a pleasant habit , enabling the possessor of it to astonish his friends by

    the liberality with which he can spend money and indulge in extravagances O far beyond mJtheir

    own honestly restricted means . How brightly , how joyouslyhow swimmingly can a young

    fellow who has , acquired this habit carry on for a time , and until he is found out ! And

    found out sooner or later he is sure to be . Then how astonished he is to find that his

    employer , whom he had probably looked down upon as a stupid old fogey , has somehow or

    for other a had long his time eye . A on hint him , and wor suspected da look him is

    sometimes sufficient to create , doubt , ; doubt , - begets suspicion ; and suspicidn leads to

    certainty . Then this fine young fellow is topp BJ Bj led over at a blowand then it is that he

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    is had not prevented his , which his hia seeing pride before , conceit and , and the vanity result

    of it all is that his * after life , is bound in sorrow and in misery . '

    How many a tine youth have I known who started in his business career the

    ambition pride and with hope bri of ht his abilities fond parents and excellent , full of g

    pfcospects , , who marred those prospects for

    ever by refusing to listen to tho appeals of

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    andr * - it les may » - . * ^ not ; prove ^* - " «^ " » w . us ., eless yy |^ m » to o ^ vnr quote j j y B _^ ICMTiUTI a few I examp Some Some years vears ago aero a a . bright bright young foun or fellow f el low *> o n ,.

    came into the employment of my firm , fresh from ¦ the attainment of high honours at school

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    Ianexcellent guages ; he address was proud was of of his a masterful abilities , had dispo an -1 I

    attain sition , a and very seemed high , position certain . , in He a ] few ) egan years by , to - I

    loining sixpences and shillings from the pur till at every convenient opportunity—the shillings

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    heart , and he is now , I believe , a billiard-1 marker in some disreputable saloonif he 1

    has not fallen still lower . , I Another clever boy , whom I have known I

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    genuity Another by youth purloining displayed postag his e stamps perverse ; his in- II II

    ingenuity led him to ruin . II got Another married while promising still young in his fellow teenswhen foolishl he y II h II

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    fidence to to Another the lii ¦ ¦ « of responsible rtJBjpouai his youth emp Die loyers had poaition position so that far he of gained was vuu collector appointed wwi the con of — - H _

    accounts some and ¦ mixing weeks ¦ ¦ . He , up instead bega the n of money by at collectin once with handing g his emai own l it sums into _ f ° the counting ¦ -house ; then bV collecting other

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    was oemp amounts p money leasant ¦ . ¦ , that This so lar it operation g was e , at gradual length was ly , found app that lied so he easy to found la * a h { " ^ i 1 ' I

    impossible ¦ to replace the sums wjiich lie bad expended ¦ compayty ¦ , as he and subsequentl so his life y exp has lained become , * '

    Bad and mournfuj , ' wreck . _ ^ J

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• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Sept. 15, 1886, page 1012, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15091886/page/10/