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that all persons who talk trash in this style must 

 relinquish their pretensions to the Judges' Bench, for 

 they must he either downright novices, or else must 

 be trying to deceive you — one or the other. And I 

 say further, that if persons holding such crooked 

 opinions as the above are hereafter put up as judges 

 for the improvement of the breed of horses for the 

 utility of man, then I shall be justified in putting in 

 my claim as "Author of the one thing needful," to be 

 a judge for the present age of the most correct 

 practical theology for the utility of man also. Here 

 it is : — 



First, — Believe and you are dished. 



Second, — Make money and outwit your neighbour, 

 or hide your face from the sight of all sensible men. 



Third, — The poetry below points out the pure and 

 proper path to pursue for the accomplishment of all 

 praiseworthy and profitable purposes ; and the 

 systematic pursuit of it will tend greatly to facilitate 

 the dealing, whether that may be horse dealing or any 

 other dealing : — 



Go to Church three times a day, 

 And do not fail to always pray, 

 OthervA'ise when you're in need, 

 It certain is you'll not succeed. 



Only remember (for I shall presently proceed to prove 



