PURCHASING H0ESE3. 63 



"Here is a horse fast enough for any hunter's 

 plate, and he can jump the world ; he has carried my 

 master, but was not suited to the country, and was 

 overweighted with thirteen stone, but would fly with 

 your weight. Here is another : they did not like 

 him in our country, he rushes a little at his fences, 

 and in a cramp country Hke ours, this is held as a 

 great objection; now, in Leicestershire he would 

 shine." 



I have now got a hint as regards two horses, both 

 as good as any in the stud, and in some points per- 

 haps better ; but, as the groom foretells, they would 

 probably go for perhaps seventy or eighty, whereas 

 others that would not answer my purpose better, or 

 as well, would bring from two to three hundred — is 

 not this worth giving a man a couple of sovereigns 

 for ? This I know, it is the only way for a man to 

 go to work to whom price is an object. 



