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be asked, when it was understood for what he was 

 wanted, particularly if the purchaser was known 

 to be precise as to getting an exact match. 



For such horses the coachman will have every 

 appliance of the most expensive kind, whether 

 necessary or not. The term will may sound sin- 

 gular as applied to a menial ; but if from indolence, 

 affectation, habit, a disregard of expense, or all 

 these causes combined, people will allow menials 

 to become, in effect, masters in their vocation or 

 department, they will find that if the term will be 

 not used in speech, its effect is carried out in the 

 end, and such will probably always be the case 

 more or less in the establishments of the wealthy 

 or fashionable. 



The idea that horses will not be done justice to 

 at livery, is, in a general way, a very unjust and 

 fallacious one ; for I have no hesitation in saying, 

 that, provided you apply to a respectable person in 

 his line, and he knows your horses are to remain 

 with him, they have a far greater chance of being 

 well done by, than if left to the care of half the 

 (soi-disani) coachmen in London. The carriage, 

 harness, and horses will be properly attended to, 

 for this simple reason it is the master's interest 

 they should be in order to keep your custom, and 

 to get that of others by your equipage being well 

 turned out ; and he saves nothing by allowing his 

 men to be idle. If the horses are not done justice 

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