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pursuit ^ leaving them totally exculpated froiiv 

 the bare suspicion of being included in the 

 *' beggarlxf description/* 



Taking leave, therefore, of that part of 

 the subject, as can but ill accord with the 

 feelings of those who may become person- 

 ally affected by sa faithful a representation 

 of their domestic penury, I beg permis- 

 sion to recommend for their deliberative 

 imitation a part of my invariable prac- 

 tice for a series of more than twenty years. 

 This has always been^ to let the manual 

 operator (or journeyman^ Avhom I ever con- 

 sidered the muin spring of the machine) 

 enjoy some pecuniary compensation, in ad- 

 dition to the professional emolument of 

 the master, not more from a conscientious 

 convietion of its being greatly merited by 

 the trouble, care, and danger of shoeinij 

 high-spirited and refractory horses, than 

 experimental demonstration, that Genero- 

 sity, founded upon tlie basis of equity, will 

 inevitably insure its own reward. This 

 is at least a lesson I have every right to 

 inculcate, when I can affirm with the strict- 

 est veracity, I have never had a horse su^-* 



