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worth even tlie limited amount of attention whicli they 

 command. 



P.S. — Since writing the above I have seen a letter in 

 the Field from a gentleman who^ after stating that he 

 has found the use of the Goodenough shoe very satisfac- 

 tory,, rather spoils this praise by saying that at the 

 commencement of a frost he had the calkins steeled. 

 Now^ as in the country the only times that these calkins 

 can be of any use is during a frost, if they are useless, 

 and if they require alteration, then what is the good of 

 them ? and, without them, what becomes of the much- 

 vaunted shoe ? 



London: Printed by Horace Cox, 346, Strand. 



