else we daat th’ wisdom o’ him at sed it, but at th’ same time my experience taiches me at it’s a varry useful thing to have i’ yor pocket when yo goa to market, an’ it’s a wonderful thing for stiffenin a chap’s back booan.  Allus remember this, at th’ heigher yo hold yor heead an’ lower other fowk ’ll bow theirs.  Ther are exceptions to this rule, for ther are ’at think a honest man has as mich reight to hold up his heead, even if he hasn’t a penny in his pocket, as one ‘at’s thaasands o’ paands.  Ov coorse, yo know better nor that; for a empty heead an’ a full purse can pass muster even i’th’ Parliament.  Then, whativer yo do, yo mun get hold o’ this brass, an’ niver heed, if becoss your gettin moor nor yo want causes some others to goa short—­that’s nowt to yo—­yor number one an’ luk to that.  If yo can nobbut get a fortune, yo’ll find friends come withaat seekin.  But mind whativer yo do to get yor brass honestly-that is, get it i’ some way ’at th’ law cannot touch yo.  Dooant knock a chap daan an’ tak it throo him, but start some sooart ov a society wi’ a long name, get some offices in a garret in a grand street, get some chap wi’ a hannel to his name to be president, an’ a lot o’ directors ’at nawther yo nor onybody else iver knew, pay a poor begger fourteen shillin a week to be scratchetary, mak yorsen into th’ treasurer, an’ then advertise.  Somdy’ll be sure to tak shares, an’ as sooin as ther’s ony brass to goa on wi,’ vooat yor sen a salary ov two thaasand a year,—­mak sure to get it—­an’ then, if ther’s ony claims at yo connot meet wind up th’ business.  Fowk’ll be sure to sympathise wi’ yo, and yo’ll have as mich as ’ll keep yo respectable for a bit, an’ then yo can luk aght for another chonce o’ turnin a honest penny.  Yor belly’ll be full an’ your back weel clooathed, your conscience—­well, tak noa noatice o’ that,—­an’ if yo can get a front seeat in a chapel yo’ll stand a gooid chonce o’ been made a taan caancillor or a member o’th schooil booard.  This number one doctrine has another advantage, a chap ’at follows it aght has nubdy’s else interests to bother abaat; he doesn’t care who dees soa long as he lives, nor who sinks soa long as he can swim.  But allus tak care net to let other fowk know ’at yo live up to this system; for although iverybody thinks a gooid deeal o’ ther own number one, nubdy seems fond ov another’s.  Some even goa soa far as to call a number one chap selfish.  Well, worn’t we born into th’ world to be selfish?  What have we nails for if we munnot scrat?  What have we teeth for but to bite?  What have we een for but to look after awr own interests?  What have we ears for but to listen for iverything to us own advantage?  What have we bodies for but to serve?  This is number one doctrine.  Its varry popular, an’ does varry weel for this world; ther’s a deal o’ hansom gravestooans stand ovver once successful number ones.  What ther number is i’th’ next world is moor nor aw can tell, but aw know they’ll have to start afresh, for all they iver gained they’ve left behund.