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style as horses chosen for this particular purpose. 

 We can only say, therefore, that there are many 

 horses that, for ordinary purposes, or for other par- 

 ticular purposes for which peculiar appearances, ac- 

 tion, and attributes are wanting, are, like the barouche 

 horse, a bad sort in themselves ; but we must, figur- 

 atively speaking, call them a good sort — id est, for a 

 barouche. 



