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pretty good judge of the animal. My 

 coaches were all well horsed, the teams 

 well matched for pace, and I had them 

 of all colours grays, bays, chestnuts, 

 roans, duns, skewballs, and blacks and 

 at the hour of starting they usually 

 attracted the attention of the inhabitants 

 both civil and military. I hunted with 

 both the Hampshire and the Hambledon 

 hounds, was generally well mounted, 

 and always took care to have fast 

 trotters to drive either in single or 

 double harness, occasionally exhibiting 

 in a tandem. 



Thus I became well known, and was 

 often applied to by officers in the gar- 

 rison and gentlemen in the neighbour- 

 hood for a charger, a good cob, or a 

 pair of match-horses for a carriage, and 

 generally managed to supply their wants 

 with satisfaction to them and credit to 

 myself. 



But this sort of business, though very 



