Keeping a tavern is looked upon a .ul- 

 ▼anta'reous. Hut, to my grcnt • . I 



louiiii unly imcc Ln^lishmcu iii utai way 

 of life, and all diss.. One of thcrll 



lives ai rhiladcipliia, keep, one ol the tinl 

 taverns, and deals vciv largely in !mr»€S. 

 He told me that he did not like hn* bi: . i- 

 tion : hni knowing the art of cropp ng 

 and nickin ' luTsts, aiuJ i)rcMk.: - ti.cm for 

 carriages, whicli is not much known in 

 Anicri . he i u :icd to by many gca* 

 tlemen from pi mnrr^. I vrn% nr- 



»o have gone 

 frnrn two to thrce hundred miles, to buy 

 c^ ^ : of him. He told me, not- 

 withstanding he appeared to have the bett 

 b * ss in the counin-. " d there wia 

 nothing to be done : he had sold fortj^ 

 five horses in England in one i! wliich 

 ^'as more than he liad ever dispoicd of in 

 A I in a year : wlierc, fur want of t 



return, they were rathci a *u..> , the fecd- 

 ii :, and incc upon, hurst >, ccu- 



sumiog the profit. 



