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ander ! * " Supposing he had adopted the racmg 

 style, he would probably hear he had got the sohrU 

 quet of " Young Buckle" for his pains. 



Whichever way his taste may have tended, at all 

 events it tended to no credit to himself, and he de- 

 termines to make an alteration. " Facile descensus 

 Averni^^ — he had found this easy enough; " sed re- 

 vocare gradui^ — of this he was to find the difficulty. 



In the first place, he must sell — or, in his case, 

 get rid is a more appropriate expression — of his 

 horses. Now, we all know that as regards the gene- 

 rality of men, the selling anything they possess, is 

 an act usually attended with considerable loss, 

 whether it be a horse, a carriage, a gun, down to a 

 French moderator-lamp — even supposing each to be 

 good of its kind, and to have been bought at a fai^ 

 price. When we purchased either, we wanteds them. 



The difficulty in selling is to ,find a person who 

 wants what we wish to part with : if we sell to a 

 dealer, he has to find this, and consequentLy will not 

 buy, except at a price that they will command at any 

 moment convenience or necessity may induce him to 



