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thereby led on from turneps to grafs, without 

 receiving a check between them. 



The above is not the only inftance of Mr. 

 B.'s fkill in grazing. Laft year, he fold 

 two Galloway Scots for near fifty pounds. 

 Thefe however he had kept " over-year ;" 

 that is, from Odober 1779, to May or June 

 1781 ; eighteen or nineteen months. 



But, a few years ago, he fold five Scots, in 

 May-June, which he had bought in, at 

 St. Faith's fair, the preceding Odober, for 

 twenty pounds a piece. The lot confided of 

 ten : the other five he fold at feventeen, eigh- 

 teen, and nineteen, pounds each. This half 

 fcore did not cod him quite nine pound ten 

 {hillings a head ; fo that, in about feven months, 

 he doubled his money. 



But what is ftill more, about four or five 

 years ago, he bought nine Irijb bullocks at St. 

 Faith's ; namely, feven at feven guineas each, 

 and two at fix pound fifteen fhillings each. 

 Thefe he finifhed by the beginning of June, 

 and fold (in Smithfield) four of the fmalleft 

 at fixteen pounds a piece ; the remainder at 

 eighteen pounds or upwards. This is pro- 

 bably the greateft grazing that ever happened 

 in the cotintv. 



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BULLOCKS 

 AT 



TURN EPS. 



BRF.FD OF 

 CAT ILK. 



Much, 



