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the animal likes ; the other causes the horse to do the 

 same thing, but in a proper manner. 



Good hands are to a man of fortune worth a dia- 

 dem to him ; in virtue of them, he is carried as no 

 man wanting them can be. It may be said his money- 

 could purchase horses that want no hands to make 

 them do their business handsomely. He might ; but 

 if they wanted no hands to make them go in such 

 manner, still less do they want bad ones to thwart 

 tham when they do. 



They are invaluable to the poorer man ; they enable 

 him to purchase horses hitherto thought little of from 

 a bad style of carriage, and raise the price of the 

 same horse, while in his possession, from, perhaps, 

 eighty to a hundred and fifty. 



I will particularise a specimen of fine hands in the 

 person of an individual everybody in the horse-world 

 knows — Rice, as he is familiarly termed, Mr. Ander- 

 son's (of Piccadilly) right-hand and second self. His 

 hands are worth, I should say, 500^. a year to his em- 

 ployer, for this reason — any man of fortune wanting 



