76 PEECKPT AIS^D PRACTICE. 



Perhaps, after another failure or two, they succeed, 

 and a pretty success they have of it : they find they 

 have got a tin snufF-box, or a wooden imitation of a 

 pear, worth three-halfpence, after having expended 

 perhaps a shilling or more in failures. Perhaps there 

 may exist persons who have done pretty much the 

 same thing, by endeavouring to get horses by a move 

 pretty much carried on in and about London — which 

 will be the subject of the next hint. 



