Cit for Cat. 



two at double or treble that figure ; and by this 

 time the would-be purchaser would have usually so 

 awakened to a sense of his own '' littleness " as to 

 literally jump at a slight whistler at three figures or 

 so, which the owner would make him feel he was con- 

 ferring a favour upon him by selling. The customers 

 he liked least were those who knew what a horse was, 

 and wanted tlieir money's worth ; for such usually 

 bucketed his fat brutes about pretty considerably, 

 and not unfrequently left without buying after all, 

 because they could not get it. 



Yet it was the fashion to buy from Brigs, and if 

 sensible men kept away, and poor ones necessarily 

 sought some cheaper market, yet there was still always 

 a very handsome percentage of well, the less in- 

 genious, and a sufficiently fair sprinkling of those 

 wealthy, to keep the great man's balance sheet at the 

 bank very right indeed. 



O! the pedigrees which have been created in that 

 snugly wainscotted parlour ! In a few minutes — aye, 

 seconds — the trimmed up progeny of an unambitious 

 cart mare has there assumed an equine status which 

 the Herald's College and unlimited £ s. d. have failed 

 for several generations to secure to an aspiring human 

 claimant. Old Brigs had always, too, a bottle of the 

 brownest of brown Sherry upon the well-polished 

 sideboard, and I do not hesitate to assert that it has 



