lis :tRECEPT AND PEACTICE. 



horse to liira that they had seen and fancied would 

 answer his purpose, though he did not theirs ; — at 

 least so I have found it when occasionally I have gone 

 to a fair. 



But we have forgotten our supposed tyro while 

 stating what might be seen at a fair, not what he has 

 seen there. We suppose him to have come latisli in 

 the day, that is, one or two o'clock — quite time 

 enough we will say for those who come there for 

 amusement and sight-seeing, but by no means early 

 enough for those who come horse-seeing ; for by the 

 time such a person has wandered about not exactly 

 knowing where to look for what he wants, half the 

 low rabble and low dealers will have got their dinner 

 and just drink enough to render their address and 

 jokes most annoying to anyone they may think 

 proper to ** chaff a bit." Our tyro has looked at all 

 the horses tied up for sale till he recognises the tails 

 and rumps of them all, and has passed and repassed 

 their owners till they seemed to him as old acquaint- 

 ance. He has seen s^eral horses out, and, judging 

 from the aforesaid rump and tail (which are all he 



