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than did the carriage-horses of the late Marquis of An- 

 glesey. Mr. Sheriff (anybody's) carriage indubitably 

 costs more than did the noble Marquis's, but where is 

 the taste exhibited? the horses Mr. Sheriff pays a high 

 price for, no doubt, will be found in themselves high 

 enough and to spare, though not of high caste; but they 

 answer the purpose for which they were purchased, 

 which, verily, is far more than can be said of those 

 of many other persons. Then, again, no doubt Mr. 

 Sheriff would not stoop to make money by his horses, 

 though he does so by making breeches — (I should say 

 pantaloons, for now-a-days no one in London wears 

 breeches, except footmen, coal-porters, and dustmen). 

 iSTot even the imposing title of Lord Mayor of London 

 holds out any prospect of his horses being admired 

 by good judges of animals, though his dinners are 

 very much so, by good judges of good eating, No, 

 we must not look in the neighbourhood of the Poultry 

 for first-rate living animals, though it abounds with 

 the very finest dead ones. I once bought a horse 

 that went leader in a gentleman's four-in-hand, not 

 being a match for the others, which he was not, being 



