CHAPTER XXXIV. 



A TKUMP CARD. 



Noi to be beaten by this sort of thing (since the 

 columns of certain friendly journals were still open to me), 

 I adopted the style of advertising then current ; and soon 

 after the articles noted in the last chapter made their 

 appearance in the "agricultural" paper Mluded to, the fol- 

 lowing letter from the Young 'Un was published in the, 

 New York Spirit of the Times, upon the subject of ~ 

 live stock generally, and what / had for sale particularly. 



" Uncle Porter: 



" During the last few years, I have turned my attention 

 to trafficking in stock (as you may possibly already be 

 aware). Not copper stock, or Reading, or Hoosac Tunnel, 

 or similar 'bores,' — but in live stock; to wit, living stock. 

 Asisusspal in this great and free country, other people have 

 got to doing the same kind of business, since it has been" 

 now found to ' pay ;' and who 's a better right ? 



"/ desire, at the commencement of the new year, 

 through the Spirit, to call the attention of such of your 

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