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Here perhaps I may be told that Mr. 

 Bedel, of Foot's-cray in Kent, very frequently 

 can fell a lamb of lefs than one third the 

 weight of the one I mention for 3/. 3^ But 

 we are to confider the different expence of paf- 

 ture-lamb and houfe-lamb ; and that he con- 

 fines himfelf entirely to the breeding of the 

 latter for the London epicures to furnifh their 

 tables with at Chriftmas. 



To return to my lamb : Had he had from 

 one to two hundred miles to travel, he would! 

 have loft a great deal of weight and value, A 

 two or three years old wether or ewe certainly 

 would notdiminifh fo much by the fame jour- 

 ney : but if you can bring a lamb to fetch the 

 value of a two or three years old fheep, the 

 return of money will be quicker, and the 

 profit more confiderable. 



The large Lincolnfhire fheep is proper for 

 fome foils. The flefh of this kind of fheep is 

 of a courfe fubftance ; and though not inclined 

 to feed fo quickly as the Difhley, he does not 

 when fat, wade fo much in fize by travel- 

 ling to market. His frame is larger, but his 

 flefh not fo delicious, or ufeful to the breeder 

 in refpect to value; and there will be found, 

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