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particulars a good Imnter, he must now be the 

 good horse, for ridden as hunters now are in coun- 

 tries where hounds go like greyhounds, unless a 

 horse is really good he cannot live at the pace. 

 It is true there are horses that would bring a long 

 price^ though it is known that, figuratively speak- 

 ing, they are not worth a farthing after the first 

 burst ; and such horses are really valuable to cer- 

 tain men of large fortune : such a hor&e is pro- 

 bably most brilliant in his performance for thirty 

 minutes, his master then jumps on his second 

 horse, the first goes home, and is not wanted 

 again for eight or ten days. Now supposing this 

 to be the case, on a rough calculation of what 

 this horse costs in keep, his share of strappers, 

 stud groom, stabling, and so forth, his master is 

 riding him at a trifle under eighteen pence a 

 minute, and at the rate of four pounds some 

 shillings per hour for the time he rides him. 



I know a man particularly fastidious in his 

 snuff and cigars ; for the particular kind he takes 

 of the first he pays tenpence an ounce, and for 

 very choice and old cigars he gives anything that 

 is asked him. I know he gave a shilling a piece 

 for some said to have belonged to the late Duke 

 of Sussex ; of each of the cigars he buys he only 

 smokes half, and then declares ^^tlie aroma be- 

 comes vitiated.^^ Now he has only to ride at 

 eighteen pence per minute, and his hunting. 



