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his position in society will permit him to do without 

 giving offence ; but it must be very little indeed of 

 the characteristic of the trader the gentleman can 

 take up without losing caste : still, a fondness of 

 horses and the amusements they contribute to, and 

 also piquing himself a little on his taste, judgment, 

 and management in either or both, will go a long way 

 towards (or perhaps quite) excusing a man of mode- 

 rate means turning these to account, if done in an 

 honourable and gentlemanly way. Let the difference 

 of opinion on this subject be what it may, or which 

 way it will, it is not my province, nor if it were, have 

 I influence enough to direct it ; my object is to show 

 money is to he made. As regards whether or not a 

 man may choose to make it, supposing him qualified 

 to do so, is a matter in which I can but say, in this 

 '* the patient must minister to himself." 



But it is not in breeding, racing, or hunting pur- 

 suits alone, that money is to be made by horses. 

 Time was, when harness horses opened a wide field 

 for speculation, if entered into by such men as the 

 late Lord Sefton, Sir John Lade, Mr. Agar, and 



