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other opportuuity of shewing his horse rating twenty 

 miles an hour, unless he choose to risk the getting the 

 soubriquet of '' The Flying Dutchman." In harness, 

 the thing is quite diiferent; there a little '' shew off*' 

 on fitting occasions is quite admissible. 



Fortunately, for persons of different tastes, there 

 are horses that will eventually exhibit superior capa- 

 bilities in some way, foaled nYery day ; and the adage 

 says, though it would not be courteous to believe it, 

 that " there is a (something) born every hour." But 

 there is no occasion to depend on the coming of the 

 last-mentioned personage, for there are plent)^ of 

 sensible men, and men of good taste, who are always 

 on the look-out for, and quite willing to give liberal 

 prices for, anything that exhibits beauty, merit, or 

 unusual qualifications, as regards extraordinary per- 

 formance, in any particular ; and highly to be prized 

 and applauded such men are ; it is those that give an 

 impetus and encouragement to the production of that 

 (be it what it may) that is superior in its way. Sup- 

 posing a man of fortune should pay a strong price for 

 anything he may see is superior, we are not to set 



