1 76 HINTS TO HORSEMEX ; OE, 



But supposing a man, brought up to city business, 

 disposed to acquire the taste of the west-end man in 

 horses, he has no opportunity of doing so, for he has 

 only the horses and equipages of his cotemporaries 

 constantly under his eye ; his acquaintances are not 

 horse men, and a turn in the park -will not suffice to 

 perfect his taste, or improve it much either ; for when 

 there, he will probably most admire the style his eye 

 has been accustomed to, unless he has quite a different 

 sort of man to himself with him, to call his attention 

 to what is held admirable by good judges. He would, 

 no doubt, see among the equipages some quite to his 

 taste, and seeing them in Hyde Park, he would 

 probably carry their style in his eye, as a pattern for 

 his own, if he proposed keeping one ; it would, most 

 likely, not strike him to enquire whether they came 

 from Park or Mincing Lane ; and if one was known 

 to him as coming from the latter locality, he would 

 return satisfied that it looked quite as well as the 

 Duchess of Wellington's; thus he would go home 

 with his bad taste confirmed. 



To show what this taste would probably be, a very 



