If the foregoing treatise to be judged by the _letter_ and not the
_spirit_—have mercy reader.
RULES FOR MEASURING A HAT.—Take the circumference on the _outside_,
where the band is fixed, in inches. The breadth of brim and depth of
crown as wanted.
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_Entered at Stationer’s Hall._
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