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couraging. It seems to prove that ' Impecuniosus,' 

 practical and enterprising as he was, was not far 

 wrong when he still craved for some writing out of 

 the 'ordinary follow-my-leader style,' which might 

 ' throw some light on a subject hitherto veiled in 

 obscurity, viz., the horse's foot.' We should only be 

 too glad to learn that this active-minded gentleman 

 is still in the land of the living, and that writing 

 containing the ' original ideas ' which he, being so 

 far ahead of the ' ruck,' was still open to receive, 

 may fall under his criticism. He is chargeable to a 

 great extent for its having appeared. 



