334 " HE COMES, HE GOES, LIKE THE SIMOOM." 



finds that for this turn he is, as he would say, down 

 upon his luck ; and now " vamos por Dios," cry I, or 

 perhaps this Don may give us a few "vivas" of the 



wrong sort. 



I have now given my reader positive proof of a 

 system of which I had only before apprised him by 

 words. I trust he will be very careful (from what he 

 has seen) how he ever attends to such horse advertise- 

 ments, and that when he does (or if he does), he has 

 got a few hints that may be useful to him. In return, 

 I only beg his best indulgence for my humble eiforts 

 to interest him in what I may in future submit to his 

 perusal. 



We will conclude that Major is not always so truly 

 unfortunate in his customers as he was in our case, 

 but that he finds some one to buy either the valuable 

 mare or one of the greys. What then ? In a day or 

 two the purchaser of course finds out the secret, or is 

 told of it ; and as he is minus some seventy or eighty 

 pounds, he seeks Major for a restitution of it : he 

 finds the stables, no doubt, but all he can learn of 

 Major is, " they wish they may get him," for he left 

 without paying for the hire of them. But if it is 

 supposed that he has for one moment balanced in his 

 mind the separate advantages of an emigration to 

 North Canada, the United States, New Zealand, or 

 Australia, it is doing him great injustice : the Major 

 is no recreant, not he. If the purchaser will only 

 have patience for a week or so, I dare say, I can put 

 him on his drag ; but even then, he has so many well- 

 known earths open, it would be difficult to run in to 

 him : and suppose one did, fingers worse bitten would 

 be the only result : but if the finding him is really 



