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"world; from Giles Jolter to Lord Belvidere, from the 

 dealer in ruddle and ponies to the dealer in flattery 

 and two hundred-guinea horses. 



The Shetland ponies, also termed shelties, when 

 they are docile and pretty, bring (for such little ani- 

 mals) high prices to carry, or sometimes draw chil- 

 dren, from £10 to £15 ; and Mr. Orton of Black wall, 

 the great importer of them, is quite aware of such, 

 qualifications in them as will command such prices. 

 He most probably gives so much for a lot, and then 

 divides and subdivides them, till some get to carry 

 or draw dogs' meat, others the young scions of our 

 nobility. They are probably, in the localities where 

 they are bred, by no means an unprofitable stock ; 

 where a goat can live, they will. They are subject 

 to few, if any, diseases ; and that most fatal one, so 

 common among-high fed horses, namely, inflammation, 

 I should conceive to be unknown to a shelty. 



"We will ascend the scale of breeding gradually. 

 The next step, I should say, brings us to a pedlar, 

 or some man who works a galloway mare in a small 

 cart. We often, in such cases, see the dam 



