PURCHASING HOESES. 25 



like the beater with which gardeners level newly- 

 laid turf. 



Unusually high action is not favourable to speed, 

 yet there are some horses very fast, notwithstanding; 

 but then their step is quick and light, and not that 

 of — if I may adopt a w^ord for the occasion — the 

 pounding step of a bad sort of Hanoverian, who, 

 being of no real use to any living man, are very 

 properly kept for the only duty they are fit for, and 

 that a sad one. 



