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will bring more than many horses you see going as 

 race-horses, aye, and winning too. We will talk of 

 such horses at some other time, but will confine our- 

 selves at present to Mr. 's horses. You ask why 



I infer they will fetch such unheard-of prices. You 

 mistake the thing : such prices are not unheard-of. 

 Hunters have been sold at double the price I have 

 named : but why I talk of three or four hundred 

 being about the likely price, is this — " 



** Excuse my interrupting you ; but I think I have 

 heard you say that frequently a horse or two was to 

 be bought out of a stud at a moderate price, from his 

 not having suited the country he had been hunted 

 in, though he might be even a brilliant performer 

 when taken to another." 



" I have said so ; and I perceive by the smile on 

 your face you think you have caught me on the hip, 

 or, in other words, contradicting myself 5 but I will 

 explain. In most large studs, where from perhaps 

 fifteen to twenty horses are sold, what I have stated 

 as to be expected is pretty certain to be the ease. A 

 very large number of horses is not easily got together, 



