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chine may be drawn by one horse in this manner. The two headpieces 

 are to be lengthened, as also the curved brace projecting towards all of 

 them, about three or four feet. The two broad pieces will be connected 

 at their ends by a bar for the singletree, and, rising from the right 

 hand one near the end', an upright connects it with the curved brace, 

 and by the side of this upright rises another secured to its place to a 

 height sufficient to clear the reel. From this top a brace passes across 

 the reel to the opposite post. Below the inner shaft from the single- 

 tree end, is secured a longer bow or brace, projecting outward some- 

 what, and continuing along the direction of the shaft to the front of the 

 horse, where it passes around and joins to the other shaft, which has 

 been left purposely longer. The object of this bow is to throw the 

 stalk inward towards the cutting apparatus instead of the triangle re- 

 moved." 



This language, quoted from the patent, is descriptive of a method 

 of pulling the machine as shown by the dotted lines of the drawing. 

 If the eyesight of the writer of the Protest is so poor that he could 

 not see the shafts in the drawing and the language in the specification 

 describing them, is it not fair to presume that his mental faculties are 

 so impaired as to render valueless anything he may write? It is a 

 weak cause that can only be maintained by misleading statements and 

 garbled quotations. Repeatedly during the past fifty years the article 

 from the Lexington Union of September 28, 1833, descriptive of Mc- 

 Cormick's reaper, has been reproduced and widely published. This 

 article says: 



" This machine [referring to the McCormick reaper of 1833] is so 

 constructed as to leave a long or short stu'bble, to operate alike on tall 

 or short grain. It is drawn by one horse walking by the side of the 

 grain in shafts." 



The paper then proceeds to give a full description of the machine. 

 The following testimonial in relation to the operation of the McCor- 

 mick reaper in the harvest of 1833 was published in the November, 

 1833, issue of the Mechanics' Magazine and Register of Inventions: 



" I certify that Mr. C. H. McCormick's reaping machine with a 

 horse was employed by me in the late harvest and though I did not 

 work it much I was satisfied with its work. 



" [Signed] JAMES M'DOWELL." 



Mr. McDowell was Governor of Virginia in 1843. 

 Mr. William S. McCormick testified under oath in 1855, in the 

 suit of McCormick vs. Manny, as follows: 



