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ppondence, providing you publish the whole and state tlie facts exactly as 
they have occurred. I have no fear of the conclusions my friends will form. 
Your remarks as to my name having appeared in the Journal of April last 
refer, I presume, to the cake that I sent Mr. Berry of Pheasey Farm. In 
that case there was nothing to reflect upon my character, and Mr. Berry con- 
tinues to be a constant customer of mine. — Yours truly, 
" F. S. P. "Wolforstan, Esq. ' " J. K. Bourne." 
'• Statfold : August 9, 1888. 
" SiE,— I made no insinuations. I simply stated facts. I will restate 
them, as they are all now admitted. 
" 1. You knew I bought no cake but 95 per cent. pure. 
" 2. Y''ou offered my bailiff" cake which you knew was not 95 per cent, 
pure. 
" 3. You invoiced it 95 per cent. pure. 
" 4. Y'ou received payment for it as 95 per cent. pure. 
" 5. You never said a word about any ' mistake ' till you knew the cake 
bad been analysed with an unsatisfactory result. 
" Just a word in explanation of this. Your conversation with my 
bailiff began, as he tells me, by your asking for an order. He then told you 
that he had instructions from me not to buy anything more from you, and 
he gave as the reason the unsatisfactory result of the analysis. Then for 
the Jirst time was any mention made of the ' mistake.' 
'* It is not unnatural to suppose that as you, when you met my bailiff", knew, 
as you state, that there had been a ' mistake,' the Jtrst words you would have 
said to him would be, ' Oh, Mr. Green, 1 am so sorry there has been a mistake 
about that last lot of cake.' But this is not what occurred. 
" These are the facts. I make no comment on them. Every man is free 
to draw his own inference. — Yours, " F. S. P. Wolfeestan." 
"P.S. — This correspondence must now cease." 
"Atherstone: August 10, 1888. 
" SiE,— I have your letter of yesterday's date restating what you call 
* facts.' I reply to them as under : — 
"1.1 did, and, with the exception of this last ton, you have always had 
95 per cent. 
" 2, I did not. I had a 4-ton load of cake sent to Tamworth — 2 tons 
were 95 per cent., and two tons ordinary quality. I knew I had a single ton 
unsold, which I ofl'ered to your bailiil", and did not know but what it was 
the sort he usually bought. 
" 3. It was invoiced 95 per cent., because it was considered to be such, 
and the mistake was not discovered till afterwards. 
" 4. Yes ; but I credited you the difl'ereuce in value as soon as the mistake 
was found out, and would have sent you cheque but you owe me money at 
the present time. 
" 5. To reply to this long clause. On Saturday, July 7, I met your 
bailiff', who told me that you had had the last ton of cake analysed with an 
unsatisfactory result, and I replied immediately that there bad been a mistake, 
and explained to hiai how it had occurred. On Monday, July 30, I met 
your bailiff" in the Tamworth Sale Ground, when I commenced the conversa- 
tion by asking him for an order, and he then replied that he had instructions 
from you not to buy anything more from me. (Mr. Green will no doubt 
recollect our conversation, which took place near the ring where they sell 
the cattle.) In consequence of this conversation, I wrote my letter to you 
of Jul}' 31, which no doubt you have by j ou, and in wliieh I stated your 
bailiff" had told me what instructions he had from you. Dates in this case 
