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each lays in such stock as he knows will suit his cus- 

 tomers. 



Second-class dealers buy a few of their best horses 

 at prices, I should say, ranging from fifty to seventy, 

 and larger numbers below that price ; a few of the 

 best they purchase in the stables — those have been 

 dechned by the first-class ; their other horses they 

 select from those " standing the fair." 



Our tyro need fear no interruption from dealers of 

 the first or second class : the first he probably never 

 sees, and if he did, there is no rudeness to be antici- 

 pated from them ; the second class he does come in 

 contact with in his perambulations through the fair, 

 but they also are far too respectable a class of men 

 to offer any affront to one they see in the position of 

 a gentleman. But ware the lower sort : they hold a 

 man buying for himself as virtually robbing them of 

 their profits. Such men as Mr. Anderson, Elmore, 

 or Collins, care not a farthing whether a man buys 

 a horse or two or does not ; they know he would 

 not be there if he was one (^ their customers, and 

 they would probably good-naturedly mention any 



