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trade, that constant and permanent success depends 

 on character, as well for honesty as for judgment. 

 A man may sell a bad horse to advantage, but he 

 knows that, if chargeable with an intention to de- 

 ceive, he is at once classed with the knaves of his 

 profession ; and regular customers are driven away 

 from his stables for ever. Horses are rarely to be 

 found at these places, cheap, nor is it reasonable 

 to expect it; for all perishable commodities, and 

 few deserve the epithet more than cattle, are in- 

 evitably high-priced. It is better, however, to 

 give sixty or seventy guineas in the first instance, 

 for a good and tried horse, than to buy half a 

 dozen at an average of half the money, with the 

 certainty of losing at least forty per cent, on the 

 sale, exchange, or return of five of them. 



I feel no impropriety in mentioning the names 

 of some of those dealers whom I have personally 

 found to be safe men; especially as my work is 

 published anonymously. In the city, I should re- 

 commend Dye, of White Lion Street, Spitalfields. 

 I must acknowledge that I have not been fortunate 

 in my purchases from him, but I have always met 

 with very fair dealing at his stables. At the WQSt 

 end of the town, I think that Elmore, Wimbush, 

 Anderson, Kenrick, and one or two others, whose 

 names I do not at the moment recollect, are all to 



