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is to say threepence for each horse or mare ! The 

 slaughter of them cost threepence a-head more ; the 

 staking and cleaning of the hides once more, three- 

 pence ; and lastly, a like sum for the carting to Goya ; 

 making the whole not one shilling for each skin. Of 

 this contract ten thousand animals were delivered ; the 

 skins were packed in bales and sold in Buenos Ayres 

 at six reals, or three shillings each, and they sold ulti- 

 mately in England for seven or eight shillings, that is 

 for about twenty-eight or thirty times the first cost of 

 the horse from which the skin was taken. Such is 

 the accumulative value sometimes of the produce 

 which is taken from the hands of the grower in one 

 country before it gets into the hands of the consumer 

 in another." 



THE END. 



