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smell, however, the horses began to eat 

 them ; and very good they are : but I had 

 only forty pounds for thirteen horses, bulls, 

 and cows ; and this was all I could procure 

 in the totvn of Norfolk, where there ap- 

 peared to be a great deal of shipping and 

 trade. I learnt, indeed, that these blades 

 were frequently a very scanty supply in the 

 markets ; and that perhaps T might not meet 

 with what I wanted, if I did not look sharp 

 about me. I, therefore, rose early in the 

 morning, and walked out along the road 

 which I was told was the most likely for 

 meeting the carts coming with them to 

 market. I found several people on the 

 roads with the same intent. With one of 

 these persons I formed an agreement to buy 

 a cart-load betwixt us : and I stood market- 

 man, and bought that quantity, which con- 

 sisted of four hundred bundles, or four 

 hundred pounds, (to be either weighed or 

 counted, which I pleased.) My promised 

 partner in this business, however, deceived 

 me, and did not accept his share ; there- 



