This for the honest man; the crooked man, the thief, the brand-burner is not so troubled.

_He_ will select a brand such as others already in use may be easily changed into.

To give a very few instances.

If his own brand be 96 and another's 91 the conversion is easy.

If it be [**#] and another's [**-II-] it is equally easy; or if it be [**3--E], as was one of our own brands, the conversion of it into [**d--B] is too temptingly simple.