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the "stud :" so he determined to send them where they 

 were good enough (bad as they were) to attract the 

 attention of some of the company. So to Dixon's they 

 went, and there also went the two friends incog. 



Now, our leading counsel had advised his client 

 not to send his grooms with the horses, that is, not 

 to wait with them — alleging as his motive for doing 

 so, that people might infer that the assurance that 

 they were to be sold without reserve was a catch, 

 and that the servants waited to take back those 

 unsold. This appeared plausible enough, but his 

 motives for this advice were these : he felt perfectly 

 satisfied, or rather convinced, that either of his 

 friend's servants were of a kind to be quite willing, 

 for a half-crown put into their hand, to " sell" their 

 master ; but as this would not tend to sell the 

 horses, he advised their not having the chance given 

 them. However, he had another reason for ad- 

 vising the horses not being made a fuss with as a 

 "stud." He^ knew that any judge would in such 

 case say, " Who on earth could have collected such a 

 set of wretches and call them ' a stud V '* 



