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fat to be pleasant to eat. My flock being small, 

 forty, or thereabouts, of some neighbours join 

 ed them; and they have all got fat together. 

 I have missed the interlopers lately : I suppose 

 the " Yorkers" have eaten them up by this 

 time. What they have fattened on except 

 brambles and cedars, 1 am sure I do not know. 

 If any Englishman should be afraid that he 

 will find no roast-beef here, it may be sufficient 

 to tell him, that an ox was killed, last winter, 

 at Philadelphia, the quarters of which weighed 

 tivo thousand, two hundred, and some odd pounds 9 

 and he was sold TO THE BUTCHER for one 

 thousand three hundred dollars. This is proof 

 enough of the spirit of enterprize, and of the 

 disposition in the public to encourage it. I 

 believe this to have been the fattest ox that 

 ever was killed in the world. Three times 

 as much money, or, perhaps, ten times as much, 

 might have been made, if the ox had been shown 

 for money: But, this the owner would not per 

 mit; and he sold the ox in that condition. ! 

 need hardly say that the owner was a Quaker. 

 New Jersey frad the honour of producing this 

 ox, and the owner's name was JOB TYLER. 

 329. That there must be good bread in Ame 

 rica is pretty evident from the well known fact, 

 that hundreds of thousands of barrels of flour 

 are, most years sent to England, finer than any 



