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with much lefs trouble, expenfe, and anxiety, 

 than when kept fo long upon hand before 

 thej could be taken to market. 



This has turned fo much to advantage in 

 their annual transfer to the London dealers, 

 who purchafe at the famous fairs of Banbury, 

 Northampton, Leicefter, Reading, and many- 

 others, (exclufive of their extenlive agencies 

 in Yorkfliire and other diftant counties) that 

 they are now broke and fold fo foon as they 

 have obtained Jizc, and undergo the moft in- 

 famous praftices upon their teeth, to enable 

 the confcientious fcllcr to difpofe of two, 

 three, four-year old, iox z. four ^ jive ^ ox Jix ; 

 which he frequently does with fuch affurances 

 of truth and integrity y that the cheat is very 

 little likely to be difcovered by any fagacity 

 or circumfpedtion whatever. 



A fimilar degree of refinement has been 

 effeded upon the turf, as with the more in- 

 ferior claffes j for what has been promoted 

 by inter eji on one hand, has been extended 

 by the invincible fpirit of oppoftion on the 

 other. It is but a few years fince a four year 

 old plate was conlidered the firft public trial 

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