116 PEECEPT AND PEACTICE. 



omething of the kind, that for ready money they 

 could purchase at far less. 



A young man of fashion, and perhaps of large for- 

 tune (when he comes into it), sees a horse that strikes 

 his fancy — he has not the money at command, nor 

 will he wait for anything he fancies till he has — he 

 must expect to pay a somewhat heavy price for being 

 permitted to indulge his impatience. We are not to 

 suppose that the transactions of first-rate dealers are 

 always of this kind ; but they are always with first- 

 rate men, and such men have peculiar ideas as to what 

 they expect those they honour with their custom to 

 permit them to do. 



Besides this, men of note and fashion are very 

 fastidious ; in what they buy they will be (and they 

 are right in being so) distingue ; and to show them 

 what ordinary men would buy of any kind — from a 

 horse to a paper knife — would be useless. They are 

 williug to pay for a thing being uncommon — and 

 uncommonly dear they do pay for its being such. 

 This forms the difiference between a fashionable first- 

 class dealer and those of the less fashionable sort : 



