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me ; so " I got my labour for my trouble." Many 

 of the animals were, during this rage for fat cattle, 

 fed up to as great a weight and bulk as it was 

 possible for feeding to make them ; but this was 

 not enough ; they were to be figured monstrously 

 fat before the owners of them could be pleased. 

 Painters were found who were quite subservient 

 to this guidance, and nothing else would satisfy. 

 Many of these paintings will mark the times, and, 

 by the exaggerated productions of the artists, 

 serve to be laughed at when the folly and the 

 self-interested motives which gave birth to them 

 are done away. 



