PURCHASING HOESES.' 133 



" Dear Aidme, — I am quite convinced you showed 

 your good sense and judgment in advising me to sell 

 rny former stud, and equally showed yonr prompt- 

 ness of action in the way you managed their sale. 

 The kind and friendly feeUngs that then actuated 

 you, will, I am sure, induce you to procure me a few 

 horses of a better sort, as you know so perfectly 

 what I want. 



** Yours ever, 



"Frederick Alered Suppliant." 



"Confound the fellow !" said the one thus ad- 

 dressed, "how should I know what he wants ? So, 

 because I good-naturedly get rid of a parcel of brutes 

 for a mere acquaintance, I am to be lugged into 

 doing what is at all times an arduous office, even for 

 friends. Perhaps he thinks he pays me a compli- 

 ment in doing this." He chucks the note to the 

 furthest corner of the breakfast-table, taking up 

 The Field again. 



Having finished the article he was interrupted in 

 the reading of, and his breakfast at the same time, 



