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to induce a semi-intoxication of cupidity, that leaves 

 a novice no chance of escape without remorse. 

 Auctions ought to have been put down at the same 

 time with lotteries ; at all events, three purchases 

 should qualify a man for Bedlam, without the aid 

 of a commission of lunacy. I never but once 

 bought at an auction without being cheated, and 

 that only happened because the interest sold was 

 of a nature so complicated and unusual, that not 

 a man in the room comprehended its real value. 



There is however an essential difference between 

 horse-auctions and all others; it is not only the 

 case, as I have elsewhere observed, that no animals 

 are sent to them but such as it is morally impos- 

 sible to sell elsewhere, but nineteen out of twenty 

 of the buyers are hiographically acquainted with 

 the quadrupeds. Though horses of all descriptions 

 are at times sold at every horse-auction in the me- 

 tropolis, each yard has its peculiar trade. Sporting 

 horses, whether for the field or turf, are the staple 

 commodity at Tattersall's. Machiners, as they 

 are called, that is, post-horses, or stage-horses, are 

 generally found at Dixon's or Robinson's. Morris's, 

 better known as Aldridge's,* is well supplied with 



* This establishment has been lately transferred to Mr. Young 

 of the Bazaar. 



