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every one of which are quite necessary in a lady's 

 horse. It is true, beauty may be dispensed with ; 

 but a woman on a plain, common-looking animal, 

 inspires one with something bordering on that feeling 

 of regret we experience on seeing an elegant, deli- 

 cate, and refined creature married to a coarse, not to 

 say vulgar, man ; each thus playing the characters of 

 Beauty and the Beast. Who, with any soul in him, 

 would, as regards her horse, grudge a few extra tens 

 to procure an animal worthy so lovely a burthen ? 

 Whenever I see such a one badly mounted, an idea 

 of reproach, as regards her husband or relatives, 

 always arises in my mind, accompanied by the mental 

 inquiry and wonder, of '' who, and what, on earth, 

 can they possibly be r" 



As one proof or corroboration of my statement of 

 the difficulty of getting a perfect lady's horse, I had, 

 about twelve years since, a grey that carried my 

 wife ; he was very near what I have stated a wo- 

 man's horse should be, or, to use a favourite ex- 

 pression of the well-known late Tom Smart's, *^very 

 near quite a nice one ;" by some chance unknown to 



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