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5 Letter XII. Checks on the Contractor.
terms, then, at the end of the year make him pay ten pound for every man
that has actually died within that time; to which you may add or
escaped, and I dare say he will have no objection. If by nursing
them, and making much of them, he should find himself, at the end
of the year, a few pounds the richer by his tenderness, who would
grudge it him? If you have still any doubt of him, instead of the
ten pound, you may put twenty: you will not be much the poorer for
it. I don't know upon second thoughts, whether somewhat of this sort
has not been put in practice, or at least proposed, for Foundlings.
Be that as it may, make but my Contractor's allowance large enough,
and you need not doubt his fondness for these his adopted children:
of whom whosoever may chance, while under his wing, to depart this
vale of tears, will be sure to leave one sincere mourner at least, without
the parade of mourning. Some perhaps may be for observing, that, upon my
own principles, this contrivance would be of no use but to save the
useless: since the Contractor, of himself, knows better things than not
to take care of a Cow that will give milk. But, with their leave,
I do not mean that even the useless should be starved: for if the
Judges had thought this proper, they would have said so.
My
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