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ninety-nine cases in a hundred, find the pounds and 

 shillings disappear, and only leave him the pence to 

 console himself with. 



If a man chooses to buy rejected racing-colts, un- 

 less he really is quite indifferent to save loss, let him 

 never buy weedy ones, under the fallacious idea that 

 among such he is likely to chance on a flyer. He may, 

 it is true, find the nugget ; so he might, and with 

 quite as much probability, find a valuable diamond 

 in a dust-cart ; but purchasing the contents of dust- 

 carts on such hopes would be a somewhat wild spe- 

 culation ; for, let him remember, his weedy ones that 

 cannot fly can do nothing else, so they are worth 

 about the load of dust that does not contain the dia- 

 mond. If a man flatters himself that his luck is a 

 staunch friend to him, and that he will get a race- 

 horse among the rejected ones he purchases, let him 

 buy at least a good sort, and not fancy that spindle 

 legs and herring bodies are indications of extraordi- 

 nary speed. That many horses, with such imperfec- 

 tions, are fast, we all know, but their speed is shortly 

 stopped by want of stamina and power ; and, indeed, 



