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ing nothing about horses abuse horse-dealers more than 

 they do any other tradesmen. The fact is, such men, 

 knowing less of horses than of other articles they 

 purchase, lose more by them, and consequently always 

 attribute their losses to their having been taken in by 

 the dealer in them: but the truth is, they are only 

 not as much taken in by other dealers, because they 

 are better judges of the articles they deal in : if they 

 were not, they would be equally taken in by them. 



We must recollect that Messrs. A. and B. are sup- 

 posed to have gone to a respectable man, who in no 

 way deceived either (no great thanks to him, it may 

 be said, as regards B.) : but no matter ; the other was 

 not taken in : the two horses perhaps cost originally 

 the same price in a fair, the difference between them 

 only being, one, like Pindar's razors, was " made to 

 sell" the other to use. If you choose to buy a glass- 

 imitation stick as a curiosity, well and good : but if you 

 mean to walk or ride with it, you must not be angry 

 with the shopman for selling it you. B. would pro- 

 bably buy a good ground-ash for his purpose, and 

 inwardly smile at your choice : possibly he did so when 

 A. bought the horse. 



We will now mention a second class of dealer. By 

 these I do not mean men of more or less honesty than 

 those who fly at higher game : the same principle acts 

 on both. By second class, I mean men who deal in 

 horses ranging from 30/. to 60. a-piece. Such men are 

 found in numbers in the more eastern parts of London 

 and the City. These men we may occasionally even 

 now see dressed, as a horse-dealer ought to be, in his 

 single-breasted coat and top-boots, with his whip in 

 his hand ; not like his customers, in satin cravats and 

 waistcoats, which give him the appearance of a dealer 



