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about them, and to see that they do their duty ; 

 a respectable man as a stud-groom, will probably 

 do nearly the same. But if a master is a careless, 

 unfair, or, to say the least, injudicious rider in 

 the field, the best stud-groom that ever had a horse 

 under his care cannot keep the stud going, the sick 

 and the lame will make a fearful array against the 

 sound and hearty ones. With such a customer as 

 this, no doubt, whoever lets his hunters on a job, 

 calculates and charges accordingly ; such a man 

 must pay for his folly in some way, either by 

 giving a considerably greater sum for the use of 

 horses than the same number would cost another 

 man, — or, if in his own stables, losing by the 

 lamed and maimed he sells out in order to get 

 others fit for the field. 



If I mistake not. Count Segur went further in 

 the jobbing system than most private individuals, 

 and I believe Tilbury supplied him with horses. 

 I never had the honour of any further acquaint- 

 ance with the Count than an occasional nod, but 

 I have seen him " go," and go he certainly did, 

 and, as a sailor would say, go ahead he did, 

 and more than once over his horse's head I have 

 seen him go ; but the Count was not a man to be 

 dismayed at such a contretemiis ; he got up, 

 shook his feathers, and, like a true good one, 

 away he sailed again. We ought to cherish such 

 in these omnibus and railroad times, to keep up 



