X PREFACE. 



Headers such minuticie as these may appear 

 imimportant, but there are a certain de- 

 scription of Literati at Tattersall's and Al- 

 dridge's, as well as in the Barouche Club, 

 lately established, to whom such a circum- 

 stantial account would, no doubt, be pecu- 

 liarly satisfactory and interesting. 



The Grecian horse, we believe, was war- 

 ranted sound, and free from vice, and it 

 seems that the Greeks were as well versed 

 in that species of recommendatory panegy- 

 ric as any of our modern dealers, a great 

 similitude appearing between the issue of 

 that ti^ansaction, and most of the bargains 

 of the present day * 



Persuaded, therefore, that the foregoing 

 observations Avill sufficiently justify the adop- 

 tion of the motto, I shall now attempt to 

 give a generic description of the horse- 

 dealers of modern times, some of whom 

 have been denominated Greeks, doubtless 

 in commemoration of their Grecian pre- 

 decessors. 



The Reader will be disappointed if he 

 expect to find, in the following pages, a 



* EvKvnuiJ'if A^Aioi, (the well booted Greeks) frequently 

 occurs in Homer ; whetlier any of them were horse dealers, I 

 shall leave to the Editor of the " Censura Literaria" to de- 

 termine. 



