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son that there is no one to buy them : it is true, too 

 true ; but we have phaetons, broughams, and cabrio- 

 lets, so we are not beat yet. Two blood-like high 

 steppers put together, and put together well, are 

 worth far more than each may be bought for sepa- 

 rately ; and it is only under particular circumstances 

 that the man, aware of his own tact and judgment, 

 will purchase them together ; for this would, in a 

 general waj', be giving away the advantages his 

 attributes can produce. 



"We now come to the single-harness horse. Size 

 as well as fashionable action is wanted. Many such 

 are purchased by persons knowing little of such 

 matters as riding horses ; sometimes, indeed, under 

 the somewhat extraordinary ideas that, from their 

 size and appearance, they are to be made hunters of, 

 though harness shews itself in all and everything 

 about them. Such mistakes daily arise, but not on 

 the part of the man who knows what he is about ; 

 the innocent first purchaser finds his supposed future 

 hunter too great a brute to ride anywhere ; he is dis- 

 gusted with him, and rather than be laughed at for 



