luG England's hokses, 



" tip " would find its way to an agent's pocicet that would 

 be so madly unmindful of his own interests and the welfare 

 of his business as by any such dereliction from a straight 

 course to put himself and his reputation in the power of 

 the seller, goes alone, and pays the penalty of this "too 

 clever by half" kind of policy through his banker's account. 



So much for wealthy purchasers, and leaving less rich 

 ones to contend with the various chances of being swindled 

 by " copers," " chaunters," improvised " trustees to a gentle- 

 man deceased," et hoc genus omne, we shall just glance at 

 the position Avhich private sellers occupy. They have few 

 alternatives. In some instances the owners are conversant 

 v.ith horses, and really know a hunter and hack from a 

 buggy horse. But their position and opportunity too fre- 

 ([uently preclude them from attaining to that nice discern- 

 ment in equine trading which leads a practical judge to 

 value a horse with the same trade accuracy that a grocer 

 should a hogshead of sugar, or a butcher a fat bullock. 

 The consequence being that very frequently they have the 

 mortification to discover, Avhen too late, that either a sale 

 had been effected much under value, or that a liberal ofier 

 had been unwisely refused. There are many gentlemen 

 whose position in society and habits in life, whose health 

 and tastes render them totalh^ unfit for the arduous, irri- 

 tating, and disagreeable duties of salesmen of horses. In 

 such cases one of two expedients is only open, if they do 

 not wisely employ a competent and trustworthy Horse 

 Commissioner, namely, entrust their property to the 

 management of servants, who, as a rule, are self-sufficient 

 and incompetent in such transactions, if not luorse, or to 

 consign their horses for sale to some public mart. 



We have, all of us who visit such places, seen hanging 

 about horse auction marts, from year's end to year's end, a 

 lounging but vigilant-looking lot of fellows, whose peculiar 



