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in the prime cost, but in the effect produced by con- 

 dition. I have five horses now in my stable, which 

 cost only one hundred and ninety-four guineas, and 

 one which cost seventy. For the last-mentioned horse 

 I have been twice offered 200 gs. and once offered 

 150 gs. For two of the others I was last season offered 

 my own price. One of the five I purchased for fifteen 

 pounds. She was twice sent to Tattersall's, and was 

 also at half the Commission Stables in London, but, 

 although got by Walton out of Highland Lass by 

 Highland Fling, a son of Spadille, no one would offer 

 five pounds for her, and no wonder — she was a weakly- 

 looking animal, with a hollow back, a dejected 

 countenance, and a pot-belly, and said to be half 

 bhnd. I will shew her (I hate boasting) for sym- 

 metry, power, and action against anything of her 

 size ; and I have no hesitation in saying she is equal 

 to as much weight again as she was when I purchased 

 her. 



When discussing the subject of summering hunters 

 lately with a friend, who is an advocate for the grazing 

 system, he made use of the following expression : 

 " I dare say it may be all very well to keep them in 

 the house in the summer, but then they have not the 

 benefit of the rest which they get when at grass." I 

 could not help smiling at this strange perversion of 

 facts ; and ventured to ask him whether, if he were 

 to be examined in Natural Philosophy, and asked 

 what is rest .-^ he would answer, motion ? and that 

 would not be a whit less absurd. If rest be desirable 

 for a hunter's legs after the labours of a winter, surely 



