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auQion for very fmall fums. Bifhop's famous 

 brown mare, was at fix years old fent to Aid- 

 rich's for fale, and was at lad purchafed by him- 

 felfat a very inconfiderable price. The ca- 

 price of a certain defcription of people towards 

 horfes is almoft miraculous ; they feem to enter- 

 tain a natural antipathy to good ones, which 

 they are fure to rejeft, but more certainly ftiil if 

 offered at a m.oderate price ; whilO; they will 

 lug out their gold moft liberally, for the pur- 

 chafe of fome ill-fhaped, cock-tailed garroon, 

 intrinfically not worth nine-pence. I could il- 

 luflrate this by a cloud of examples, of which 

 take the following as a fpecinrien. A gentleman 

 purchafed of a dealer a well-bred black gelding, 

 five years old, fifteen hands high, and mafler of 

 from twelve to fourteen ftone, road or field ; 

 the price was thirty-eight guineas, a confider- 

 able one at that time.' The gentleman kept 

 him about a twelvemonth, hunting him occa- 

 fionally, but never experienced any fatisfa6lion 

 with him, his groom liking the horfe (fill worfe. 

 He was to be ^ot rid of at any rate, and whe- 

 ther at the repofitory or not, I have now for- 

 gotten, but he was purchafed for a trifle by a 

 butcher, who was a fappofed judge of horfes. 

 The butcher became weary of him, and fold 

 him to a friend of mine, for about fifteen pounds. 

 My friend, chiefly on the repreferitation of ano- 

 ther fuppofed judge, and who after riding the 



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