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PlIEGHASING HOUSES. 

 {Continued.) 



We have seen, or at all events I have endeavoured to 

 show, that *' getting at" the owner of horses is not 

 so sure a way of getting at the truth as some people 

 imagine. I will now state what I have done myself 

 when buying at Tattersall's, by which I usually got 

 what information I wanted. 



If you are thought well of by the head man of the 

 yard (which I should strongly recommend every one 

 to be who is in the habit of purchasing horses at the 

 hammer), he will cheerfully give you every informa- 

 tion consistent with the duty he owes his em- 

 ployers. To apply to any one else is worse than 



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