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reckoned as the certain result of his pursuit in mak- 

 ing money by horses. He may make his prices 

 exorbitant if he pleases, and can find persons to give 

 such prices : he will not lose character by that ; for 

 the purchaser may give it or not, as he thinks proper. 

 All it may come to will probably be, that it may be 

 said of him, as I once heard it said of a fashionable 

 dealer, *' You can't open your mouth to — — , 

 without it costing you a couple of hundreds." 



There are, however, as a matter of course, various 

 classes of dealers between the scum of the trade and 

 the aristocrat in his line. I will only particularise 

 the direct medium between a dealer as far removed 

 from the one as from the other ; he is represented 

 by the ordinary country-fair dealer, described as 

 wearing the pig-jobbing top-boots, and eulogising the 

 "good brown horse." l^ow the designation of 

 " good," does not mean in this case that he may be 

 in nature better than many others standing on each 

 side of him ; it is meant to convey the same idea as 

 if the woollen-draper was to say *'Eeach me down 

 that /w^ black cloth" — namely-, implying that the 



