How to Grow Rich.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2567, 29 March 1877, Page 3

How to Grow Rich.

Advertisements are frequently inserted such as; the,. following :—" Do you want to become rich ?_ Send 13 stamps to so and so, andiyouwill receive ian infallible receipt." The receipt is generally a piece ;\-6f'aiiTioe:\to<puj i by^tf r"peiipy'd day; and twop^nce^^on^; Sunday,, until -the sum , mo.unts. iup; .fJike i (as Mr Weller ;said) iIS (them sums in the 'rithmetic book about -tb.6-nails in'the horse's foot," or some •uch absurd answer., The presentcoutbreak of the Moanatairi mine seems to have put into men's heads a desire to become rich. The means .some employ are questionable if the.following be true :— $..Not a "sou had I got (as somebody wrote), 1 Mutth less a Bank of New Zealand note; Though I didn't feel over-much flurried, r ' Yet at that time I felt, * Without bite on the shelf, Or the price of a " cooling "^"S' half-quartern" in pelf, j ' -('Til bad, Eccles will tell you without any doubt, tTo be hot within but cold with- •♦ .-' out), • That. I didn't care if I was buried. - Just then as I lay on the mud-stained , , . floor; . -. Trying to sleep, and think no more . X>£ my present lot, A dreanvl got , V ' ,''That the'Moanatairis, had made - ' a good shot; That a lot of gold had come to view, And'tliat Comer had come and said it ' _"w»"ftrue. , r, "' *: fseftiigTitway rose/ • '*•:' 3lA.nd such'tapered clothes, , • •'■'^'A^I usually,,wore, , -- , " ;'; from the floor; ,r .-" ' T6ul??e X was obliged tp^ place thero , v jFor money to raise : ,„ - • , I had sent to Rae's . My table, bedstead, and cane-bottomed - " chair; " - ' j They,"'midst pledges, which to redeem «-:, A .menfail, f' •i^' r" . . - Had been sold at, Mr G'j3 weekly sale.

■ To the Corner I wended my silent way, And the corner was silent too, *> > And; the brokers listlessly lolled about, - ABiiftaey had nothing' tcj do r s • With Jjclbypncas ( t' lock and dissatisfied And-'ble' dropped his pipe arid I heard him swear, , Thoueh^abpve his head were-written r^tHe^eJ',' •.«.•.-•- ---7 The' * Nil Despefandum • — l*^ v 4ieVer despair. ,"■ <■< "f • He^asked.fo^ajnatch {which he never '"'carried)"; * _ . And x as to reliv-ht his pipe he tarried, - liasied him what the price would be '' Of eacH single -share px the Moana•a - < His pipe interfered i somewhat with his ; ? apeeph , • • * Arfceicurtly answered, " They're eight bob "each."" x ' '- I askedi for a' hundred, be nodded his head; J* You shajl have them to-aight," were • '"the words^he *aid'; And j silently went on my homeward ' ' ' ' way '- ' ' Remembering I had not a shilling to '- pay. , . '" Tp make a story short, as I've heard, is 'fright—' 'So .hear goes,:,,lt, happened before the „ night r ,-tfj «• '. , ,These .shares, for which I'd paid nothing Teach,Increased in value a pound apiece. ' [ Fifty I sold and my way I went, Paid my debt (plus "two and a-haif per cent). The remaining fifty xoae, and rose, Arid'What'they will reach nobody knows; " But they're worth a thousand pounds " I. 'apyhowt; ' Beßiaes'"the' div., which I've not yet got, And" J^reckon .that this is coming it hot For a man who started his money to make Withoufhaving even a cent to stake. So if you> would grow rich, do as I, And Moanatairia immediately buy ; Besurathe venture will serve yomvell; But stay ! I have yet a word to lellj YoiU/must be|r]remind ait the Corner, "*tb? there '\ "Be careful youijnly'pay eight bob a share. . , ■ , ", Atfd'if at that figure the brokers will part, • x-s You .may thank them all with a satisfied ' heartr —ijl-' " Straightway $p to the Nil Desperanduni^ And mind always to carry matches , about, -w r To. give to a broker whose pipe goes * out. ' ' ,