_Advice Gratis_.--Make (Brighton) "A," while the sun shines,

Inquiries as to _The Para Docks Company_, and _The Jerrie Myer Bilder
Company_, I will answer squarely and fairly next week. Don't move in
these without the straight and direct advice of "CROESUS."

As to the _Turpin, Sheppard, and Abershaw Highways Company_, I shall
have something to say next week. Investors who want a real good thing,
just hold your coin in hand for a week, till I say "Go," and then go
it. This Company will be a big thing, _and, mind you, safe_.

For the present I close the account, to re-open it next week, and, to
show my good faith, send you my subscription, which you may read here,
as I subscribe myself, "CROESUS, CITY."

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[Greek: THAE PROTEKTED PHEMALE.]

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["For our part we do not believe in protected studies. Greek
came into the Western world, poor and needy, three centuries
ago. By her own unaided charms she has won her way. By
those charms we believe that she will hold her own against
all competitors until literature and civilisation are no
more."--_Times_.]

Protected Greek! Protected Greek!
BALFOUR may doubt, the _Times_ demur,