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yourself from eight hundred to a thousand ; and 

 if you can excuse blood, or take a Persian with 

 one or two of these defects, you will have no dif- 

 ficulty in procuring it for five hundred. 



If you go still further down, and take a screw 

 of high caste appearance, with a gummy leg, a 

 blind eye, a wapping spavin, a neatly fired ring- 

 bone, or a foundered foot, there are plenty to 

 be had for two hundred, though they are often 

 priced at two thousand, in the hopes of your 

 making an offer. You will find, however, many 

 of tolerable good caste and make, five years old, 

 fresh and free of wind-galls, fourteen hands high' 

 well adapted for hunting, from four to seven 

 hundred rupees, but you cannot expect a fresh 

 sound horse of height, caste, and appearance, for 

 so small a sum. 



The price of a high caste, well built, fresh 

 Arab, of five years old, is enormously increased 

 by a little height ; for every inch you will have 

 to pay five hundred rupees. If fourteen hands 

 one inch of this description can be bought for 

 one thousand rupees, fourteen hands two inches, 

 with the same qualifications in every respect, 

 would be fifteen hundred rupees ; fourteen hands 

 three inches with ditto, would be two thousand 

 rupees. And the increased height is well worth 

 the extra money ; for a large high caste, fault- 



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