208 Hii^TS TO horsemen; or, 



country where he is a stranger ; let him send on one 

 of them by his servant, ten to one but the horse at- 

 tracts the attention of those going to the meet, and 

 the servant is asked by many to whom he belongs. 

 On the arrival of his owner, /' Who is he r" is asked 

 one of the other. The master, seeing a stranger, 

 whose appearance bespeaks him a sportsman, wel- 

 comes him into the countrj-, hopes they will shew 

 him sport, and, in short, sees he is somebody accus- 

 tomed to see the thing done as it ought to be, there- 

 fore does not wish him to go away with an unfavour- 

 able opinion of the hounds, and the country th-ey 

 hunt. He brings out his horses in turn ; they are 

 found to be all of the same stamp, and that a very 

 superior one, and he knows how to ride them ; before 

 he has been there long, a gentle hint is thrown out 

 to the owner, that if he is disposed to part with one 

 of them, a purchaser is ready ; or, what is more pro- 

 bably the case, the groom is applied to, to know 

 whether his master would be offended, if such offer 

 was made ; thus he sells at a price that pays, or goes 

 a long way in paying, his own and his horses' ex- 



