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" a fet of horfes. This gentleman keeps no 

 " land in his own hands, fo that he was 

 " for many years obliged to buy all the 

 " ftraw ufed for the litter of his ftables, 

 " which amounted to a very confiderable 

 " quantity : however, when the laft tenant 

 ** of this farm came to it, having been a fer- 

 " vant in the family, he offered to fupply the 

 " fquire with ftraw for his ftables, provided 

 " he might have all the dung except what the 

 * gardener had occafion for. The fquire 

 " thought this a good propofal, and the far- 

 * mer imagined he had the beft of the bar- 

 " gain ; fo the matter was foon fettled. 



' Now, you are to underftand, that the 

 * fquire kept, befides feven coach-horfcs, a 

 " ftable of hunters, a number of road-horfes, 

 " and a pack of hounds ; fo that there was 

 ' " on his premifes, in a year, an incredible 

 " quantity of rich dung. 



" The farmer imagined he was now in a 

 " fair way of making his fortune ; for his 

 " father had taught him, that the man who 

 " can command dung, is always fure of large 

 " crops : but this did not. prove true^ in the 

 " prefent cafe. 



' To proceed, my predeceflbr went on 

 " ploughing his land, got his fallows in good 

 *' order, drefled them largely with dung, aud 

 " always fowed them with wheat. 



" His crops of this noble grain, however, 

 *' by no means anfvvered his expectations : -his 



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