There is, likewise, another consideration, as far as economy is
concerned, which is not only to buy with ready money, but to buy at
proper seasons; for there is with every article a cheap season and a
dear one; and with none more than coals, insomuch that the master of a
family who fills his coal cellar in the middle of the summer, rather
than the beginning of the winter, will find it filled at far less
expense than it would otherwise cost him.