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bought a beautiful and very English-looking milk- 

 white horse, and was fortunate enough shortly after- 

 wards to meet with an exact match for him. Their 

 manes and tails were really magnificent ; but he took 

 it into his head to dye them a very pretty light chest- 

 nut, with rather a pinkish hue. A lady of very high 

 native rank there fell in love with these pink-tailed 

 horses, and he sold them to her at an enormous sum. 

 He certainly sold them as they were, nor did he say 

 the tails were not dyed, but he took very good care 

 not to say that they were ; in fact, the question was 

 never asked : if it had, I am quite sure he would at 

 once have said that they were. Some time after the 

 hair began to grow, and of course the tails and manes 

 began to put on a suspicious appearance ; but luckily, 

 just in the nick of time, his regiment was ordered 

 home. Of course, the manes and tails after a time 

 came to their own much more becoming colour : they 

 were, after all, a magnificent pair of horses, and the 

 lady had no reason to complain of anything but the 

 price. 



Supposing such a pair of horses, with really pinkish- 

 chestnut manes and tails, fell into Anderson's hands ; 

 his door in Piccadilly would be besieged by the elite 

 of the beau monde ; and whether he chose to ask two 

 or six hundred for the pair would matter little. 

 Many, it is true, would not buy them at all, but those 

 who were so inclined would give anything he chose to 

 ask; and probably, before they had been driven a 

 week, some one would tempt the owner by the offer 

 of a couple of hundred more to induce him to sell 

 them. Let these be driven till the end of the season 

 they would have been seen by every one, their 

 novelty would have worn off; and novelty was their 



