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and I will at the same time have a horse that gives 

 me no trouble.'* 



Such a man has an unquestionable right to have 

 what he wishes ; he pays dearly for it ; it is a luxury, 

 a refinement on luxury : perhaps we might say there 

 are plenty of ways in which the extra two hundred 

 he pays for it might be better disposed of, but we 

 might say the same of every thing in which the man 

 of wealth chooses to indulge himself at great cost ; 

 it is well for sellers that he does so ; for if he- did not 

 spend the extra two hundred in this way, he would in 

 some other case of self-indulgence. 



But let us return to the subject of Tattersall's, and 

 suppose a man has not a friend who knows the stud 

 sent for sale ; the mode I have used in my own pro- 

 ceedings has been this : — 



Having ascertained to whom the horses belong, 

 and the country they have been accustomed to go 

 over, I give a shrewd guess at the chief quahfications 

 of horses accustomed to that kind of country. For 

 instance, if I found they had been accustomed to a 

 light- riding country, with light fences, I should be 



