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cause him to look like a half- starved greyhound ; 

 and this such a horse as the one described would 

 certainly show, if worked ; but the purpose for which 

 he is used cannot be called work. So far we may 

 infer that a really bad sort can perform certain pur- 

 poses. 



But why, some one may ask, buy such a faulty 

 animal when a better sort is to be had ? No doubt a 

 better sort is to be found, and we all know found easy 

 enough ; but perhaps a better sort with the particular 

 quaUfications of this brute may not be readily found. 

 A thorough judge, as I have surmised, might say, 

 " What a brute !" and if an unthinking man, might 

 add, ** I should say the owner of that horse does not 

 know what a horse is, or, if he does, I suppose he 

 got him for next to nothing" — adding, by way of 

 parenthesis, '* I would not give fifteen pounds for 

 him for an omnibus." — " No man would," replies 

 some more thinking man; "he is not fit for an 

 omnibus, though, perhaps, very fit for the purpose 

 for which he is used.** 



In the midst of this colloquy the owner of th^ 



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