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EEROES AS EEGAED THE STUD. 



'* Do you recollect," observed Pupil, on meeting 

 his friend, " the request contained in my note of a 

 week or two back ? If I remember right, it was 

 asking for the advantage of your judgment in getting 

 what horses you think would best answer my pur- 

 pose, the number that I should want, and then some 

 advice on the riding and treating them." 



"And you mean," said his friend, smiling, "that 

 I have somewhat reversed the order of things by 

 making remarks before any horses are purchased. I 

 plead guilty to the charge, but have been led into 

 doing this, first, from not wishing you to suppose that 

 (in advising you not to purchase Mr. 's horses) 



