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attention sufficiently to remember him, meeting him 

 in a situation so far beneath his dignity ; though, for 

 the life of me, I could see nothing about him to indi- 

 cate its being so. 



But what does appear somewhat extraordinary, is 

 this : if they were content to ride this kind of horse, 

 and call him n hunter, it is all well enough ; but 

 they seem not to have the slightest discernment be- 

 tween the appearance of two horses, the one 'their 

 own being worth perhaps forty, or at most fifty 

 guineas, the other a couple of hundred. 



These are the kind of men usually boasting that 

 they care not for looks one farthing, provided they 

 are carried well up to hounds ; they are men as care- 

 less about their appurtenances, either to their horses 

 or themselves, as they are about the appearance of 

 the animal they ride. Lift up their upper saddle- 

 flap, my life on it you see Saddler and Harness 



Maker, of some provincial town ; their bridle, 



not one of Latchford's, or some other recognized 

 maker's, best case-hardened ones, but a sort of iron 

 instrument, whose only recommendation is its being 



