In a farm where a bailey is kept, the 

 buying and felling every thing pafies 

 through his hands ; if not, what is he kept 

 for ? We may fuppofe a gentleman would 

 not be at the expence of one for nothing ; 

 or to truft his own judgment, when he pays 

 another for having a better. If we reflect 

 on the fale of corn, cattle, hay, &c. &c. 

 and the buying of feed-corn, hay, ftraw, 

 horfes, lean cattle, &c. &c. &c. and much 

 of both, unavoidably, tranfaded with people 

 that can only make a mark, or at fairs, 

 where even no mark is made ; in fuch a 

 conduct of bufmefs opportunities to be dif- 

 honeft, and with impunity, muft unavoid- 

 ably be numerous. But, at all events, let 

 the fuppofition be ftated as it will, all man- 

 kind muft allow the farmer to have much 

 the advantage, who tranfacts all fuch bufi- 

 nefs himfelf, and in no inftance trufts to 

 the honefty of others. 



But another circumftance, not to be 

 forgot, is the judgment and knowledge of 

 the bailey: ;The very employing him is 

 a proof that the gentleman depends not on 

 his own ; and the difficulty is, the difcern- 

 ing whether the fervant's knowledge is 



fufficient 



