68 PEECEPT AND PKACTICE. 



been talked out of the horse at the fifteen pounds al- 

 luded to. But suppose a man has all his wits about 

 him, the purchasing horses at Tattersall's, about 

 whom you can get no authentic information, is buy- 

 ing at a great risk, and what no one should do who 

 wishes to buy a horse that he may feel certain will 

 answer his purpose. 



It may be asked, How or why do dealers buy horses 

 at a risk at Tattersall's? the answer to that is, re- 

 spectable dealers do not buy horses of which they 

 know nothing. If the horses of any known man are 

 to be sold, the horses used by such a man are per- 

 fectly well known to all the first-rate dealers ; they 

 have seen them at work, and know their qualities ; 

 and when they buy such horses, it is usually on 

 commission from some one who knows them also, 

 or, when this is not the case, they have some one in 

 their eye who they know wants such an animal. 

 Whenever you see anything like the following adver- 

 tisement — " To be sold by Messrs. Tattersall, at 

 Hyde Park Corner, on Monday next, the following 

 hacks, ladies' horses, and ponies, the property of a 



