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As FAME is feldom erroneous in this partis 

 cular, his predeceffor hearing of his fliccefs, 

 under a confiderable advance of rent^ took 

 the hberty of calling upon him, with a 

 bhint but honeft apology ** for afking fo 

 impertinent a qaeftion ; but it was, to be in- 

 formed how he, who had the farm at a 

 much eafier rent, could not even pay that 

 rent and fubfift his family with all his care 

 and osconomy ; while, his fucceffor was not 

 only evidently doing this, but daily increaf- 

 ing his flock from the fuperflux ?" When 

 the other replied, that the whole art of his 

 fuccefs and improvement of the premifes 

 confifted in nothing more than an invariable 

 adherence to tivo words and their confe- 

 quence ; . that when his predeceffor held the 

 farm, a too implicit confidence in and reli- 

 ance upon his fervants led him into unex- 

 pedled and invisible ioffes. Yoa, fays he, 

 always ordered your dependents to '* Go'* 

 and do this, that^ or the other ; my plan is 

 the very fame as your's in every other re- 

 fped: but this; from the firfl hour of my 

 coming into the farm it has been my con- 

 flant maxim to fay, *' Let's go;'' the ejic^ 

 of v/hich has evidently occafioned the very 



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