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cabriolet comes out. '* Angels and ministers of grace 

 defend us ! why it is Lord Gardner." 



'* Ah, ha ! my friend," cries the more thinking 

 individual, " you see the owner of this brute does 

 know something about horses ; he knows his horse 

 is not fit for an omnibus quite as well as you do ; he 

 would not give fifteen pounds for him if he was buy- 

 ing horses for such purpose ; but he has given a 

 hundred and fifty for him for his cabriolet." 



The owner gets in, takes the reins ; up go the 

 horse's head and tail ; he moves off gracefully as a 

 swan taking to the water, with action only to be sur- 

 passed by Carlotti Grisi in her movement in 2Lpas seuL 

 The big head, bad shoulder, weak loins, faulty thighs 

 and short ribs are lost in the admiration excited in 

 the by-standers of his magnificent and elegant action. 

 His owner has shown his tact in purchasing what it 

 cannot be denied is a bad sort for general purposes, 

 but a rara avis for his. 



In one word, a good sort betokens a good horse ; 

 but in employ where goodness is not called for, agood 

 sort may be dispensed with, if they happen to pos- 



