26 THE POCKET AND THE STUD. 



stepper that ever looked through a bridle ; but 

 as men, who are not judges of horses, are gene- 

 rally equally astray in their ideas of how they 

 should do their business, the chances are they 

 give as much for a brute as for a clever nag. 

 This will never " keep the money together ; " for 

 though a man may fancy his brute to be as good, 

 and worth as much, as such a horse as the Mar- 

 quis of Anglesey would ride or drive, if he at- 

 tempts to sell him he will find the whole of his 

 mistake, and only one fourth of his money, as the 

 consequence of purchasing for himself. It there- 

 fore becomes equally necessary for such a man to 

 consult a judge as to how a horse does his work 

 that has been at it, as it does to take the opinion 

 of such a man in purchasing one to put to work 

 that he has not been doing. 



The next thing to be looked at is how the horse 

 has been treated, for to bring one from good or 

 careful management to the reverse is certain loss. 

 If a man who has a farm of poor land was to 

 purchase cattle from the rich feed of Lincoln- 

 shire, he must lose by every head he buys, to a 

 dead certainty. I did not mean an equivoque by 

 the expression, but let it stand, for probably some 

 of them at least would die ; but if a lot of Scots 

 or Kerries are put on the same land, they will not 

 only " keep the money together," but materially 

 increase it. 



