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nothing could induce him to forego possessing his 

 idol ; but, where his senses would not be so fasci- 

 nated, he would not select such a one as a wife 

 for a friend. I have seen good judges thus infa- 

 tuated with a horse who, taking him in all par- 

 ticulars, was about as desirable an acquisition in 

 his way. This is another idol. I congratulate 

 the man who gets both ; but looking to the latter 

 only, if good judges, when buying for themselves, 

 will sometimes get into such scrapes, what have 

 the bad ones to expect ? 



The man who is not a horseman must further 

 bear in mind the very different situation in which 

 he will stand if he gets a horse that does not suit 

 him, to that of the man who knows what he is 

 about. If the latter gets hold of a horse with 

 certain failings, he knows how to cure or palliate 

 them ; or if not, to so far hide them as to enable 

 him to get rid of them, and the brute with them. 

 The man who is not a horseman can do neither. 

 Whatever the faults in a horse that he may pur- 

 chase, they will be shown in all their deformity ; 

 very probably be made worse. Then Tattersali's 

 " to be sold for what he will fetch," is the only 

 remedy. There some other Mr. Green gets ac- 

 commodated; the original one (notwithstanding 

 the lesson) no doubt going to market again : he 

 will then probably get the significant colour 

 changed, and he gets done Brown. This do pos- 

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