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con^esponding declarationof a legerdemain 

 ADVENTURER (at that time most applicably 

 in exhibition) whose salutary caution I have 

 ever retained: '' Look sharp, for \i your 

 eyes are not quicker than 7ny hands, I shall 

 certainly deceive you." This is a species of 

 deception so constantly practised, and so hap- 

 pily enjoyed by the performers, that I make . 

 it an invariable rule (by personal attendance) 

 to shield myself from the mortifying reflec- 

 tion of so much imposition upon my pocket 

 or my understanding. 



It should be considered that road horses 

 of every demomination are, from their con- 

 stant work and great utility, entitled to a pro- 

 portional degree of care and attention with 

 the most valuable horses in the kingdom ; , 

 for though it is by no means necessary (but 

 evidently improper) they should be in the 

 same high state of condition as horses appro- 

 priated to the higher spheres of racing and 

 hunting, yet there is a certain systematic 

 uniformity in their mode of treatment, that, 

 regularly adhered to, will prove equally ad- 

 vantao'eous with one class, as the almost un- 

 bounded circumspection so earnestly recom- 

 mended with the other. 

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