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HORSEMANSHIP. 



of provincial bunglers, these masterpieces of the saddler's 

 art are as St. James's to St. Giles's, as a thoroughbred to a 

 V^ coster's moke." 



It is the worst possible economy to go to a cheap shop 

 for saddlery, or indeed for any gear connected with saddlery. 

 In these days of rapid tanning it is most difficult to get 



good sound wearing leather, and it is only the leading firms 

 that supply this material. The reader must not be led away 

 by tempting advertisements of clearance sales, of large pur- 

 chases of bankrupt or only slightly soiled salvage stock, all, 

 of course, by unnamed first-rate makers, in which saddles are 

 offered at alarming sacrifices and at vmheard of low prices. 



