22 HINTS TO HORSEMEN ; OR, 



wanted to carr}', are driven like sheep, and, like 

 them, cling together, rarely trying to escape. I 

 bought several of these, when I resided in Sussex, 

 for myself and friends ; and it was somew^hat curious 

 to see how correctly these rude dealers would point 

 out among the drove those likely to suit the taste 

 and purpose of their different customers : they 

 evinced in this particular all the tact of a London 

 dealer, witli this difference : the latter expatiates 

 on, and points out the present merits of the nag, the 

 other as confidently enlarges on what his pony will 

 be. "Lord, sir, when he gets into your stable,'' 

 though not much in use with our high dealers, (who 

 are quite aware their horse is at his best,) is as much 

 in vogue with the ordinary dealers as with the ruddle 

 man. The high-flight dealer tickles his customers 

 in a more delicate way : " I am quite sure, my lord, 

 that, with your lordship's fine hand, he will become 

 one of the most perfect animals in London." "What 

 lord is proof against well-timed flatterj-, on which 

 the exquisite of a dealer has as fine a hand, as he 

 persuades my lord he has on a horse ? So goes the 



