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employed in trying to make them disappear. With 

 regard to the feet and heels I presume you will admit 

 that the proof of the pudding is in the eating. If then 

 you should dispute the following peremptory peroration, 

 I likewise presume you will be prepared to pay the 

 penalty. 



Tar the frog which bring to the ground, remember now, to touch it, 

 Allow no stupid Know-all goose to take his knife and cut it. 



BUT, 



Lower the heel, shorten the toe, 

 Keep the foot in moisture, soak it. 

 And thus you'll get frog width, I'll bet. 

 Put that in your pipe and smoke it. 



Unbiassed and horse-buying reader. Were you 

 ever in company with a man very much out of temper 

 saying, " I am not in the least angry ? " You will 

 observe the same kind of countenance whenever you 

 find anybody threatening to throw away these letters. 

 It would indeed be much more profitable to put them 

 under the pillow and sleep over them ; for the argu- 

 ments adduced in the literary warfare through the press 

 regarding the running of two and three-year-olds, 

 have about as much to do with directing the way to 

 obtain a good horse and avoid a bad one, or with the 

 improving the breed, as watering the top leaves of a 

 decaying apple tree would have to do with improving 

 it. An intelligent gardener with the interest of his 



