68 MINUTES JUKI 



1 1 7. The bufinefs was conducted with great eafe, 



SULLOCKS. regularity, and difpatch. He had each man's 

 account, and a pair of fmall faddle-bags with the 

 money and bills, lying upon the table : and the 

 farmers in their turns took their feat at his el- 

 bow. Having examined the falefman's account; 

 received their money ; drank a glafs or two of 

 liquor ; and thrown down fixpence towards the 

 reckoning, they feverally returned into the 

 market. 



Lafl Monday's market being what is called 

 a *' whipping market," the room was filled 

 with chearfulnefs and fatisfaction : there was 

 only one long face in the company. This was 

 a farmer who had fent up three bullocks, for 

 which he had twenty-four pounds bade ac 

 Wallham fair ; whereas the falefman's account 

 from Smithficld, notwithstanding the goodnefs 

 of this week's market^ was only twenty-two, 

 pounds. 



Such is the uncertainty of Smithfield-mar- 

 ket ; and fuch the misjudgement or partiality 

 of the Smithficld falefmen. If thefe bullocks, 

 were worth twenty-four pounds at Walfham 

 fair, they ought after three weeks or a month's, 

 grafs, and confidering the market and the ex- 

 pcnces incurred, to have fetched twenty-feve a 



twenty- 



