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Barey all the assistance in their power, without taking 

 any commission, or remuneration of any kind. 



As the methods used by Mr. Earey are so exceedingly 

 simple, the question next arose of how Mr. Earey was to 

 be remunerated when teaching in a city where hundreds 

 live by collecting and retailing news. His previous les- 

 sons had been given to the thinly-populated districts of 

 Ohio and Texas, where each pupil was a dealer in horses, 

 and kept his secret for his own sake. Had he been the 

 inventor of an improved corkscrew or stirrup-iron, a 

 patent would have secured him that limited monopoly 

 which very imperfectly rewards many invaluable mecha- 

 nical inventions. Had his countrymen chosen to agree 

 to a reciprocity treaty for copyright of books, he might 

 have secured some certain remuneration by a printed 

 publication of his Lectures. But they prefer the liberty 

 of borrowing our copyrights without consulting the 

 author, and we occasionally return the compliment. In 

 this instance the author cannot say that the British 

 nation has not paid him handsomely. 



After a consultation with Mr. Earey 's noble patrons, it 

 was decided that a list should be opened at Hyde Park 

 Corner for subscribers at 10 10s. each, paid in advance, 

 the teaching to commence as soon as five hundred sub- 

 scriptions had been paid, each subscriber signing an en- 

 gagement, under a penalty of 500, not to teach or 

 divulge Mr. Earey 's method, and Messrs. Tattersall 

 undertaking to hold the subscriptions in trust until 

 Mr. Earey had performed his part of the agreement.* 

 To this fund, at the request of my friends Messrs. 

 Tattersall, I agreed to act as Secretary. My duties 



* The list itself is one of the most extraordinary documents ever 

 printed, in regard to the rank and equestrian accomplishments of the 

 subscribers. 



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