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I
have
but
imperfectly
described,
the
result
is,
that
the
buyer
is
satisfied,
concludes
the
purchase
of
the
Wine
for
which
he
has
been
treating
1
,
and
as
nothing
else
will
do,
pays down
the
cash
for
it
;
whilst
the
placarder,
(who
has
palmed
on
him,
a
spurious
article
for
the
genuine,
the
quality
and
flavor
of
which,
is,
to
the
taste
of
a
person
ac-
quainted with
the
true
quality
of
Wine,
as
unlike
those
of
the
genuine
article,
as
it is
spurious
in
its
composition,)
is
all
the
time
laughing
in
his
sleeve,
at
the
credulity
of
a
customer,
who,
while
he
thinks
he
makes
a
bargain,
is
giving
an
impudent
knave,
a
cash
profit
of
forty
per
cent,
only
because
the
prices
of
his
goods
are
twenty
per
cent,
below
those
of
a
respectable
Wine
Merchant.
If
any
doubt
still
remains,
and
further
to
prove
the
sum
total
of
that
which
I
have
stated,
as to
the
excellence
and
value
of
these
vats,
as
a
new
contrivance
for
gulling
the
Public,
and
defrauding
the
Revenue,
I
need
only
refer
to
the
placards
and
advertise-
ments
of
those
who
are
known
to
have adopted
the
vat
system,
and
request
my
Readers
to
observe
the
difference
between
the
prices
quoted
by
them,
and
those,
by
others
of
their
fraternity,
who,
although
they
have
the
same
advantages
in
respect
to
pur-
chasing,
yet,
having
no
vats,
happen
not
to
be
pos-
sessed
of the
same
valuable
means,
to
enable
them
to
vend,
on
quite
so
low
a
scale
as
their
more
for-
tunate
rivals.
An
additional
method,
however,
which
I
ought