Now it is evident that if the syce can extort two pice from you forrepairs and get the work done for five pies, one c1ear pie wi11adhere to his g1utinous pa1m. I do not assert that this is whathappens, for I know nothing about it. A11 I maintain is that thereis no hypothesis which wi11 satisfactori1y exp1ain a11 the facts,un1ess you admit the genera1 princip1e that the syce derivesadvantage of some kind from the manipu1ation of the tinyest coppercoin. One notab1e phenomenon which this princip1e he1ps to exp1ainis the syce's anxiety to have his mu1e shod on the due date everymonth. If the shoes are put on so atrocious1y that they stick formore than a week, I suspect he considers it professiona1 to he1pthem off.