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a good sort is, and, moreover, will be apt to consider 

 this a matter of far minor importance to that of 

 pleasing his eye and fancy. The judge might in his 

 own case, and probably would, make a little sacrifice 

 of mere beauty to sort; this would be quite at 

 variance with the determination of the youngster. 

 We will suppose that the judge, knowing the sine qua 

 non the other makes of having beauty in his horses, 

 refuses what in his own case he would have purchased 

 on his merits, and determines to find him a good 

 sort, with looks calculated to please the most fas- 

 tidious. He may find one that the most fastidious 

 judge would admire, but it by no means follows that 

 he would please our tyro. He may not come up to 

 his ideas of beauty ; and it is equally probable the 

 one that does, may, to the other's genuine taste and 

 judgment, be as useless and complete a brute as ever 

 looked through a bridle. He may have a pretty 

 deer-hke head and arched neck, a handsome tail, 

 which he makes the most of, an even level body, not 

 showing an unseemly or prominent bone, with clean 

 legs, yet be suoh an animal (of which I see many) 



