174 DEALERS. 



evidently no experience or real information on 

 the subject. This is often observed in citi- 

 zens, or mechanics, who have been known, 

 with most consequential airs, to order a quar- 

 ter! instead of a quartern of corn for a horse 

 at an inn, pouring the grain from hand to hand 

 at the same time, with the vain attempt to 

 show how much they are up to "those fellows, 

 the ostlers." 



The public would get grain much cheaper 

 than they do, were it not for the interference 

 and rapacity of grain-factors and dealers, who 

 step between the farmer and the miller, and 

 merely buy to sell again. Of course, all that they 

 gain, the public lose ; but this might be borne, 

 if they would not employ their money as they 

 commonly do, to buy up or monopolize the 

 supply, so as to put almost their own price 

 upon it. 



