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NATHANIEL BENTLEY, ESQ. 451
This too burns without smoke, and probably saves him
the expence of a chimney sweeper.—All his fire-places, as
well as every other nook in the house, are filled with
various goods and boxes.
Among other tales related of his frugal contrivances, it
is said, that he once purchased a living goose, for the sake of
the wings, to clean his furniture ; not, perhaps, with a view
to throve away the body ; but not chusing to go to market
in person, he employed a deputy to buy it for him, to
whom he gave three-pence, with a particular charge to
get a young one.—As it might be expected, the goose,
turned out the very reverse; however, Mr. Bentley did
not complain while eating it, but tried his strength on its
breast-bone; and finding-he could not break it, then
sought the person to recover the three-pence.-—When he
sends for any eatables, &c. it is said, he has no objections
to his people’s saying they are for dirty Dick.—These too,
are generally in very small quantities, such as a quarter
of a pound of cheese, and half a pound of bacon ; the lat-
ter, it is said, he does not approve of, if over-fat, as the fat,
he thinks, is a loss in his way of cooking.—Small bits of
meat, called cuttings, and cracked eggs, if cheap, are
with him at all times purchaseable articles, which, with a
quantity of small beer from a chandler’s shop, is reckoned
by him a very comfortable beverage. Yet whatever his fare
may be at home, he takes care that his daily expences,
upon an average, do not exceed eighteen-pence per day ;
observing, that if he were to follow the examples of some
other people, or even his own custom of living as it was
formerly, he should run inevitably into a state of bank-
ruptcy, or spend the remainder of his days in prison.—If
he is told that other people cannot live as he does, his re-
jply is, Every one can that please and he insists that
it is no hardship to him, though in the early part of his
life he had many dishes upon bis table at once, and ser-
vants to attend him. Having
This too burns without smoke, and probably saves him
the expence of a chimney sweeper.—All his fire-places, as
well as every other nook in the house, are filled with
various goods and boxes.
Among other tales related of his frugal contrivances, it
is said, that he once purchased a living goose, for the sake of
the wings, to clean his furniture ; not, perhaps, with a view
to throve away the body ; but not chusing to go to market
in person, he employed a deputy to buy it for him, to
whom he gave three-pence, with a particular charge to
get a young one.—As it might be expected, the goose,
turned out the very reverse; however, Mr. Bentley did
not complain while eating it, but tried his strength on its
breast-bone; and finding-he could not break it, then
sought the person to recover the three-pence.-—When he
sends for any eatables, &c. it is said, he has no objections
to his people’s saying they are for dirty Dick.—These too,
are generally in very small quantities, such as a quarter
of a pound of cheese, and half a pound of bacon ; the lat-
ter, it is said, he does not approve of, if over-fat, as the fat,
he thinks, is a loss in his way of cooking.—Small bits of
meat, called cuttings, and cracked eggs, if cheap, are
with him at all times purchaseable articles, which, with a
quantity of small beer from a chandler’s shop, is reckoned
by him a very comfortable beverage. Yet whatever his fare
may be at home, he takes care that his daily expences,
upon an average, do not exceed eighteen-pence per day ;
observing, that if he were to follow the examples of some
other people, or even his own custom of living as it was
formerly, he should run inevitably into a state of bank-
ruptcy, or spend the remainder of his days in prison.—If
he is told that other people cannot live as he does, his re-
jply is, Every one can that please and he insists that
it is no hardship to him, though in the early part of his
life he had many dishes upon bis table at once, and ser-
vants to attend him. Having