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at Tattersall's, on Monday. Now, if you are at 

 leisure to-morrow (Sunday), we could go and have a 

 quiet look at them, and any we particularly liked we 

 could see out early on Monday morning, and then 

 return in time to buy them." 



**My young friend," said Mentor, "you have 

 good sense, and I have no reason to doubt your 

 having an equal share of good temper. You will, 

 therefore, not take anything I may say ill, even 

 should it not be complimentary to your judgment in 

 horse affairs. I know the horses you allude to, know 

 the owner of them, and, further, know him to be 

 as fine a horseman as ever crossed country. I know 

 that illness alone causes his horses being disposed 

 of, and other people know it too. Have you made 

 up your mind to give three or four hundred a-piece, 

 or perhaps more, for these horses V 



" I can't say that I have,*' says Pupil (looking 

 somewhat aghast at the price named) ; " but why do 

 you infer they will fetch such unheard-of prices? 

 They are not race-horses ?'* 



" No they are not : but they are worth more, and 



