MINUTES 



MAT 



SELLING 

 BULLOCKS, 



PUYTNG 

 BULLOCKS. 



appears fo compleatly fluffed within, that fhe 

 feems to walk with difficulty. There is another 

 appears, to the eye, to be fatter than this ; but 

 Ihe bandies locfe ; and will probably wafle much 

 jn traveHing j wherej.s Mr. B. has no doubt 

 (and he fpeaks from experience) but that the 

 former \v\\l /jew her ptints better in Smithfield- 

 market than fhe does now ; adding, that a 

 " right-fat bullock does not Ihrink in travel- 

 " ling nearly fo much as one which is only 

 " meaty." 



Enquiring, of the drover, as to who has fent up 

 the befl bullocks this year; he faid, that Mr. 

 iW^bf R-^ 23 Hall, had fent the beft lot 

 he had driven this year. Ah ! fays Mr. B , 

 " Peter always buys a good bullock. If a man 

 " don't buy a good thing, he can never expedl 

 " to have any thing capital ; he does not mind 

 f< a few {hillings at St. Faith's :" adding, that 

 ^ we think nothing of a difference, at this time 

 " of the year, of three or four pounds a bul- 

 " lock ; but look as much at Ihiliings on Fay's-r 

 ^ Hill, as we do at pounds in Smithfield.'* 



This dropt fpontaneoufly from Mr. B. and 

 is, no doubt, the principle and grand bafis of 

 his own practice. For he always buys the bed 

 bullocks he can lay his hands on; and he is, 



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