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reader even of the present day will at once see how 

 monej- was to be made by harness-horses belong- 

 ing to gentleman or plebeian, and may guess how dif- 

 ferent men's tastes, predilections, or circumstances 

 produced different specimens. 



See that young aristocrat, fresh from the Univer- 

 sity, with his first team, all young and fresh as him- 

 self, from their place of education, namely, one of 

 our leading dealer's stables. They have cost what 

 would purchase a modest independence for the less 

 fortunate of his fellow-men ; they are wild as their 

 owner, and as impatient of control ; but, in skilful 

 hands, they need not be feared ; there is no more vice 

 in them than (let us hope) in their master ; it is only 

 the exuberance of high spirits natural to youth ; and 

 our workman on the box (suppose him to be one of 

 1820, not 1856) has too often sat by the side of Black 

 "Will (if an Oxford man), or Dick Vaughan (if a Cam- 

 bridge one), to be flurried. So instructed, even the old 

 hands hail and recognize him as a brother of the 

 bars : let us hope prudence may long continue to him 

 this gratification — I call it absolute luxury of enjoy- 



