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stall stable. The sale begins at twelve, and the 

 earlier horses in the catalogue are of course sold 

 first; but the yard is not filled, at least not 

 with fashionable customers, till a much later hour, 

 and of course it is an object so to place him in 

 the list as to insure his being brought out at 

 the most favourable period. This precaution is 

 scarcely necessary at the Bazaar or any other place 

 of public sale. I have found by experience, since 

 my first edition was published, that some ingenuity 

 is requisite to get a horse received at all by Messrs. 

 Tattersall. I have sent horses there four times this 

 last season, but I have been unable to obtain a stall 

 for them under a fortnight's notice. This argues 

 much for their celebrity, but very little for convenient 

 accommodation. Mr. Tattersall's days of sale are 

 Mondays, and in the height of the season sales are 

 occasionally held on Thursdays also. At the Bazaar, 

 Saturday is the sale-day ; at Morris's, now Allen's, 

 Wednesday. It will be convenient to my readers 

 to subjoin the conditions of sale adopted at these 

 and other similar establishments. They will be 

 found in the Appendix. The seller, however, will 

 bear in mind that, whatever may be the practice of 

 the place, a purchaser (unless at auction) will not 

 be bound by these special conditions, unless they 

 are introduced, or specially referred to, in the war- 



