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horses, have crossed our best countries when twice 

 the present value of the lot would not have pur- 

 chased one of them ; but their condition is as perfect 

 to the eye as it was in their best days ; their looks 

 and courage shew them of high family, and, like the 

 reduced man of family, their still proud bearing 

 shews to the last. True, they are, perhaps, one and 

 all, cripples at first starting ; the owner gives no as- 

 surance that they are not. They are bought as they 

 are ; they look imposing ; they are bought from and 

 for their looks ; whether, in other hands, they will 

 ever again look as imposing as they did when pur- 

 chased, will depend on who buys them. If some rich 

 parvenu, the price won't hurt him ; it will be, per- 

 haps, a cheap lesson as to teaching what taste, judg- 

 ment, and artistic proficiency can do with faulty ma- 

 terials ; and if he has sense, he will endeavour to 

 acquire each in whatever he undertakes. Thus, 

 reader, and in many other ways as allusive to horses, 

 money is to be made even by cripples. 



Eut I may be told, if a similar team were now got 

 together, they could not be sold, for the simple rea- 



