1/2 PEECEPT AND PRACTICE. 



I meant that you should be content with decidedly 

 inferior animals ; and to prevent yonr being under 

 the influence of such error, I have been led into 

 describing different countries and different men, and 

 to show you that horses for which a very large sum 

 would be expected, though possessing peculiar quali- 

 fications necessary in some countries, would not do 

 what you would require of them in others one atom bet- 

 ter, pleasanter, or more safely, than such I hope to get 

 for you at a moderate expenditure. But we will go 

 to work as sooii as you please. Have you heard of 

 any thing likely to answer our purpose on sale ? " 

 •* Why, I think I have. I understand that, from 



some cause or other, is giving up steeple-chasing, 



and that some three or four of his horses will be sold. 

 Now it strikes me that horses that have gone in 

 steeple-chases in various counties must be so prac- 

 tised that all sorts of fences must be A B C to them. 

 They must be fast horses, and they must be good 

 ones, or they could never win. There may be certain 

 drawbacks in them, in point of slight blemishes or 

 appearance, that very fastidious men might object to, 



