met once a week at each other's houses. Mr. Y---- was one of these; and
several of the principal families in Exeter, especially those who had
children, came on the appointed evening to see the model of the Cornwall
tin-mine, which, with the assistance of the clock-maker and painter, was
now become really a show worth looking at. I made but few blunders this
time, and the company were indulgent enough to pardon these, and to
express themselves well pleased with my little exhibition. They gave me,
indeed, solid marks of their satisfaction, which were quite unexpected:
after the exhibition, Mr. Y----'s youngest grandchild, in the name of
the rest of the company, presented me with a purse, containing the
contributions which had been made for me.

"After repaying all my expenses for my journey and machinery, I found I
had six guineas and a crown to spare. So I thought myself a rich man;
and, having never seen so much money together in my life before, as six
golden guineas and a crown, I should, most probably, like the generality
of people who come into the possession of unexpected wealth, have become
extravagant, had it not been for the timely advice of my kind monitor,
Mr. Y----. When I showed him a pair of Chinese tumblers, which I had
bought from a pedlar for twice as much as they were worth, merely
because they pleased my fancy, he shook his head, and observed that I
might, before my death, want this very money to buy a loaf of bread. 'If
you spend your money as fast as you get it, Jervas,' said he, 'no matter
how ingenious or industrious you are, you will always be poor. Remember
the good proverb that says, _Industry is Fortune's right hand, and
Frugality her left_;' a proverb which has been worth ten times more to
me than all my little purse contained: so true it is, that those do not
always give most who give money."