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strings of onions. The tyro would wonder where the 

 great London dealers got horses from at fairs, for he 

 would think that either horses looked to great disad- 

 vantage there, or that he wanted discrimination in 

 not seeing them from others. It is not likely he 

 should ; by the time he has arrived, first-rate horses, 

 that have been purchased by first-rate dealers, are 

 on their road towards London, or more probably to 

 some place where they will wait for a second batch of 

 second-rate horses, purchased by the same person. 

 Lower than horses of this descriotion first-rate dealers 

 seldom go. 



Then come a second class of dealer, probably in 

 point of respectability of character ranking as high 

 in public estimation as the first — the only diff'erence 

 being, that from some cause, his customers are of 

 another order, probably an order that pay them at 

 once for any horses they may purchase, and take care 

 they get the worth, or as near it as they can, of their 

 money, when they do buy. Such men will not give 

 a couple of hundred for a horse on their I U, or 



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