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for not placing the slightest reliance on the claims 
put forth by interested parties, in their behalf, so 
far as purity of blood is concerned. They may 
very likely be good stout, profitable sheep, yield¬ 
ing pretty heavy fleeces. I have at this time 
nothing to say about them, except only as regards 
their unfounded pretensions to purity of blood. 
And here, let me with all due deference inquire, 
(just byway of suggestion,) whether the right place 
for Mr. Avery’s letter would not have been in your 
advertising department ? I say this in the full be¬ 
lief that tiie whole thing about Paulars, so far 
from being of public interest, belongs to, or par¬ 
takes strongly of, the genus “humbug;” a fact of 
which I believe I can furnish you abundant evi¬ 
dence, (if you need it,) for your own private satis¬ 
faction. Though on its face purporting to be a 
letter from Mr. A. “ on fine wool sheep,” I take 
it to be, in fact , only a regular puff of his own 
and his “ brother Hull’s” sheep; and though “ cun¬ 
ningly devised,” yet plainly and evidently design¬ 
ed by him, (after the most approved model of many 
such things, which have from time to time appear¬ 
ed in the Albany Cultivator,) to assist in selling 
their rams. This is, most unquestionably, the 
4i plain English” of it. 
But to return to Mr. Jewett. Well, one thing 
is certain, it is something for Mr. Jewett to be 
thus publicly relieved of the discredit of breeding 
such a beast as that Hull ram of his; I am sure I 
should think so, if I had been suspected of such a 
thing as breeding him. But as he did not raise 
“ the crittur,” and (may be) did not buy many of 
that sort, (for his own sake it is devoutly to be 
hoped he did not,) his flock may not be so bad 
■after all, as would naturally be supposed, judging 
from this coarse and vulgar mongrel ram. If Mr. 
Jewett was a friend of mine, I would advise him 
by all means to shoot the ram, or cut his throat, 
(no matter which,) sooner than use him in his 
flock, any further than he may unfortunately have 
done already. Indeed I should not like to have 
any breeding ewes that I valued even look at that 
ram through the fence, for fear that the mere see¬ 
ing him might affect their imaginations so much 
as to “ mark” their offspring with some of his pe¬ 
culiar beauties and excellences, of either fleece or 
countenance. 
By the way, I am told that Messrs. Avery and 
Hull affect to consider Mr. Jewett as imposing on 
the public, in this matter of saying and advertising 
as he has done, in the Cultivator and elsewhere, 
that he has for sale and can furnish full blood 
Paular rams. They are evidently jealous of Mr. 
J., and seem to consider him as “ stealing their 
thunder” in his use of the Paular name. I hear 
that Mr. Avery does not hesitate to say openly, that 
Mr. Jewett bought of his brother Hull only two or 
three of their genuine, full blood (spurious ?) Pau¬ 
lars. On that small capital, they claim that he 
has presumed to assume and use the magical 
name of Paular, for his ivhole flock, and thus, on 
the strength of this very small “ branch from their 
flock of Simon Pures,” to set himself up exten¬ 
sively in the Paular ram trade, and in that way 
humbug the public; and that they “ would like to 
see him exposed.” Now is not that excellent ? In 
my judgment it is really rich. Truly when some 
folks, (that is, speculators ,) fall out, honest men 
stand some chance to come by their rights. Now 
this is just exactly what I have been all along ex¬ 
pecting. I thought it more than probable that 
some of these Paular ram speculators and hum- 
buggers “ would turn state’s evidence” and blow 
up the whole thing. Here I think we have it, or 
at least the beginning of it. I have all along con¬ 
sidered it a speculation, a mere job. 
I wonder if some one who knows would not be 
willing to inform us how many of the genuine full 
blood Wallingford (or Hull and Avery) Paulars 
Mr. Jewett did actually buy, as a stock with 
which to “ set himself up” in the Paular ram busi¬ 
ness ? If it was really but a few, say not more than 
two or three sheep, (as the Rev. Mr. Avery would 
insinuate,) just as a sprinkling or leaven of the 
pure and royal blood, with which to Paularise 
(if I may be permitted to coin such a word) or 
inoculate with the name at least, if not with the 
blood , the rest of his large flock, composed of ple¬ 
beian or chance sheep, selected and bought from 
the flocks of surrounding farmers, mere “ pick¬ 
ups, and of no certain blood; I say, if this was 
all, (though I do not of course know what Mr. 
Jewett would be able to say to all this,) yet I am 
free to suggest that he (Mr. Jewett) could not pos¬ 
sibly do a better thing for his own interest, and 
for the reputation of his flock, than to come out at 
once like a man, and own ho w few he had of them. 
The feiver such sheep, the better , I should say. 
It is surely the wisest and best thing he could now 
do, and I commend this view of the subject to his 
most earnest and serious consideration. Depend 
upon it, Mr. Jewett, if you have, (as I do not 
doubt is the case,) in the flock you have selected 
and got together, some good, profitable sheep 
among them, you can not do a wiser or better 
thing than to repudiate and cut clear of all con¬ 
nexion with the full blood Wallingford or spurious 
Paulars. I do not doubt that you have other and 
better materials, out of which to make Paulars, than 
anything you got from Mr. Avery’s “ brother Hull 
and as to the name of Paular, if you have any no¬ 
tion for a selling or fancy name, why you can 
yourself baptize them into the Paular family, just 
as well as Messrs. Hull and Avery could do, albeit 
you do not happen to be a clergyman , as the latter 
claims to be. Lay baptism, in such matters, will 
dojustaswell as clerical. But if you take my 
advice, you will let Mr Hull, and his brother-in- 
law, the Rev. Mr. Avery, have and enjoy the rep¬ 
utation and the sole benefit of that Paular ram 
humbug. I really believe that the thing properly 
belongs to them , and that they are (as they claim 
to be) entitled to its fruits. By all means, let 
them have it. You shall hear from me again, 
before long, on the subject of Paulars, &c. 
Examinee. 
New York, Nov. 25th, 1843. 
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