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sell. Such is the usual result of buying and selling 

 where persons buy with moderate judgment, as to 

 quality and price. With a thorough judge it is quite 

 different. What he buys is always wanted by some- 

 body ; all he has to do is to make it known tha^ 

 what he has is to be parted with. This is a case we 

 are not treating on at present ; so we pass it by with 

 the few words we have written. 



Now our young purchaser is the very antithesis 

 of the last-named character, and a very poor 

 representative, indeed, of the first. He has bought 

 badly. He will find no one willing to reimburse him 

 for this. He has bought what is bad of its kind, 

 and nothing, while in his possession, was done to im- 

 prove it, or even set it off to the best advantage under 

 such circumstances. I think I did not calculate an 

 exaggerated Joss when I stated in Hint II. that about 

 two-thirds would be the diminution in price : not that 

 the property had probably diminished in value, but 

 he had, at the time of purchase, bought what nobody 

 would look at but himself ; and he will find, when 

 wanting to sell, their taste and judgment unaltered. ^ 



