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as liquid top mixture and Warren's blacking can 

 make, who jumps out of the equipage to stand at 

 tlie horse's head while the master gets out. The 

 doctor knows his patient is at home, so he hands the 

 reins to his boy, who, like the horse, is glad enough 

 to avail himself of the opportunity of standing still. 

 Let me ask, is such a man one likely to make monej" 

 by his horses ? yes he is, but it is By their labour 

 that he makes it. N^ow let him turn to the anecdote 

 of the baker with his trotters, he will find that he got 

 his business done, and well done, and made money 

 too ; so might the doctor, if he chose to drive the sort 

 to do it. jS'ow, the knowledge of any particular sort 

 of horse is not an object of very great difficulty for 

 any man to attain ; a knowledge of the merits of all 

 sorts is ; let but a man make himself a judge of the 

 horse he uses, and he will in most cases make money 

 by him. The man not in business using, as he does, 

 all kinds, requires a very general knowledge of the 

 merits and faults of all of them, and this nothing but 

 practice can effect. 



And now let us turn our attention to men who 



