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equality of the feet. A customer must be prepared 

 for a little coarse raillery, if he ventures on these 

 hypercritical precautions : the only way to receive 

 it is with good humour, and, if genius permits, with 

 a repartee that may throw back the laugh. 



One day my Suspicion was awakened by a cir- 

 cumstance of this nature. Some other gentlemen 

 were looking at the stables, and two of them at the 

 very horse I was minutely measuring. They ap- 

 peared to be a couple of school-boys j ust escaped 



from Eton, or perhaps freshmen who had spent a 

 term at Cambridge. I have, I trust, long acquired 

 the lesson of not being quizzed out of my common 

 The dealer was obviously speculating on a 



sense. 



purchaser in one of these youths, and seemed 



