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AVERY'S OWN FARRIER. 



INTRODUCTORY REMARKS. 



Knowledge. — There have been, heretofore, different 

 definitions given to this word by different persons, viz: 

 •wealth, power, &c. But suffice it to say on the present 

 occasion, that knowledge is ignorance met and over- 

 come. Now I do not mean by this that I have overcome 

 all that exists on this important subject, for I do not be- 

 lieve that it is for one man to know all; neither do I 

 think it is right for us to monopolize all that we may 

 learn of wisdom's ways; or, in other words, to keep as a 

 profound secret all we may chance to know, for our own 

 special benefit. But I have often thought that man ought 

 to do as much as the simple worm of the dust that crawls 

 along the earth, leaving his mark in the sand wherever 

 he goes. Thus we should do all the good we can as we 

 pass along through this world, and leave our mark* for 

 the benefit of the race. 



I have no claims to scholarship, therefore I make no 



* See verse at the close of Hints to Purchasers. 



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