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Rugg had left (most of which, when they reached P , 



happened tc he dark red and brown), and forthwith set up 

 an estahlishment in opposition to me-; for what purpose I 

 never knew. I did not know him froin a side of sole- 

 leather, I had never Spoken to or of him, and I could not 

 comprehend why this person should render himself, as he 

 did, my future "death's head" in the fowl-trade. 



If he went into the traffic for the purpose of making 

 money out of it, he has found, by this time, I have no 

 doubt, that he would have been, at the very least calcula- 

 tion, five thousand dollars better off had he never thrust 

 himself into a business of which he did not know the first 

 rudiments. 



If he embarked in it to interfere with or to injure me, 

 personally, he has now ascertained, I imagine, that it 

 required a faster horse than he was in the habit of driving 

 to keep in sight of my team. 



If his purpose was the gratification of his own petty spite 

 or ambition only, he has had to pay for the enjoyment of 

 it, — ay, to his dear cost ! — and he iA welcome to all he ever 

 made out of his contemptible, niggardly huckstering. 



Soon after the first exhibition, it was announced by 

 the publishers in Boston that Dr. Bennett's new Trea- 

 tise would be immediately issued by them. The doctor 

 had originally applied to the establishment in which I 

 was then a partner, to issue this work: but I recom- 



