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sovereigns, or even less, but the breeding 

 and great banging frame is still there, and 

 they are not only just as good for breed- 

 ing purposes, but it is marvellous how 

 many of them recuperate v^hen they get 

 their feet on cool soft ground, even in a 

 few weeks, and many a cart-mare bought 

 in London that can hardly hobble will 

 trot about in a grass field, fairly sound, 

 in a day or two. I have bought some 

 hundreds of low-priced horses in London, 

 so I am not speaking at random. 



The Repositories at which intending 

 purchasers will find this class of cart-mare 

 are the Barbican, Elephant and Castle, 

 Edgware Road Repository, and Staple- 

 ton's, Commercial Street, East. If you 

 are fastidious as to rubbing shoulders 

 with some terrible dirty scadgers, don't 

 go to Stapleton's, as it adjoins Spitalfields 

 Market, and you meet the veriest dregs 



