26 THE POCKET AND THE STUD. 



stepper that ever looked through a bridle ; but 

 as men, who are not judges of horses, are gene- 

 rally equally astray in their ideas of how they 

 should do their business, the chances are they 

 give as much for a brute as for a clever nag. 

 This will never " keep the money together ; " for 

 though a man may fancy his brute to be as good, 

 and worth as much, as such a horse as the Mar- 

 quis of Anglesey would ride or drive, if he at- 

 tempts to sell him he will find the whole of his 

 mistake, and only one fourth of his money, as the 

 consequence of purchasing for himself. It there- 

 fore becomes equally necessary for such a man to 

 consult a judge as to how a horse does his work 

 that has been at it, as it does to take the opinion 

 of such a man in purchasing one to put to work 

 that he has not been doino^. 



The next thing to be looked at is how the horse 

 has been treated, for to bring one from good or 

 careful management to the reverse is certain loss. 

 If a man who has a farm of poor land was to 

 purchase cattle from the rich feed of Lincoln- 

 shire, he must lose by every head he buys, to a 

 dead certainty. I did not mean an equivoque by 

 the expression, but let it stand, for probably some 

 of them at least would die ; but if a lot of Scots 

 or Kerries are put on the same land, they will not 

 only " keep the money together," but materially 

 increase it. 



