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in a rough-and-ready style of riding, that makes his 

 horse as rough-and-ready sort of customer as he is 

 himself, without, perhaps, as many good qualities to 

 make amends for it as has his boisterous, joyous, and 

 open-hearted master ; in fact, such horses are seldom 

 fit to carry a gentleman. Many such are capital 

 performers, and are bought up to be taught more 

 aristocratic manners ; but as they are when carrying 

 the worthy farmer, they are no more fit to be put in 

 my lord's private hunting stud, than is the common 

 Spanish blackstrap fitted for his cellar, till meta- 

 morphosed into a wine fitted to refined taste. This 

 the dealer does both in wine and horse. 



And why not the gentleman? some one may say; 

 and why not ? I should say ; but this is little to the 

 point, for on such subjects no doubt there will be 

 diversity of opinion ; but to such as would say, Why 

 not the gentleman ? I beg to saj^, that I have stated 

 different ways in which money is made by horses by 

 many persons as a hint to gentlemen that, sub rosa, 

 they may do pretty much the same. To the noble- 

 man, or man of large fortune, I should be inclined 



