OF EXCHANGES,
1831
LESSON XLIL
neigh-bours
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an-vil
la-bour
OF EXOCHANGES
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tail-or
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But why should not every man make what he
wants for himself, instead of going to his neigh-
bours to buy it? Go into the shoemaker'’s shop,
and ask him why he does not make tables and
Chairs for himself, and hats and coats, and every
thing else which he wants; he will tell you that
he must have a complete set of joiner’s tools to
Make one chair properly, the same tools as would
SCIVe to make hundreds of chairs. Then, if he
Were also to make the tools himself, and the nails,
he would need a smith’s forge, and an anvil, and
hammers; and, after all, it would cost him great
labour to make very clumsy tools and chairs, be-
fatse he has not been used to that kind of work,
It is, therefore, less trouble to him to make shoes
that he can sell for as much as will buy a dozen
Chairs, than it would be to make one chair for
himself. To the joiner, again, it would be just as
8Teat a loss to attempt to make shoes for himself;
and so it is with the tailor, and the hatter, and all
Other trades, It is best for all that each should
Work in his own way, and supply his neighbours,
While they, in their turn, supply him.
. But there are some rude nations who have very
little of this kind of exchange. Every man among
them builds himself a cabin, and makes elothes