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consequently they sell him, probably to the man 

 who has both, and he reaps the benefit of their 

 doing so. 



Without going back to lord mayors or sheriffs, 

 there are many men who drive, and drive fairly, 

 safely, and, to a certain degree, well; give them a 

 pair of horses properly bitted and properly put toge- 

 ther, they can drive them in most situations with 

 perfect safety and without attracting comment on 

 their doing so ; but if, on the contrary, they were 

 put together so as to be two horses, but not a pair, 

 they would know no more how to remedy this, 

 than the horses would know it themselves. If such 

 a man should wonder why his horses, for which he 

 gave a liberal price, are not admired — if he should be 

 surprised that others could always find persons ready 

 to purchase their horses, and he cannot — if he should 

 find that when he wishes to sell he invariably loses — 

 let him look at the man who does otherwise, he will 

 then find that this book has told him a secret that 

 none of his friends would do ; that it has laid the 

 truth bare before him, and he will admit that, in 



