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both. What is the consequence ? the phaeton is 

 ready sale. Even supposing, in point of easiness 

 and following the horses, I find it not what I 

 could desire, the sale of it will probably be at- 

 tended with but little loss, because hundreds are 

 using phaetons. But for the curricle, though it 

 may be the best that ever went on wheels, I 

 should be lucky if I got out of it at the twenty 

 pounds, paying the hundred for having used 

 it a month, Mr. Tattersall comforting me by 

 saying I was a fortunate fellow to find any one 

 willing to take it at all ; further consoling me, in 

 his usual candid way, by saying, it was better 

 than paying a couple of years' standing in his 

 yard. My retfder Avill, I dare say, allow my ad- 

 vice would be good ; if it was, don't buy a curricle, 

 unless you are determined to keep it : he may 

 trust to my experience when I give the same ad- 

 vice relative to a road horse without fashionable 

 action. My one hundred and twenty pound cur- 

 ricle would, as a carriage for use, be very cheap, 

 to a man who ^vanted it to use, at eighty pounds ; 

 but it would be a very bad bargain if he con- 

 templated reselling it. I hardly know which I 

 would back as the most difficult to sell, a curricle, 

 or a horse with low action. 1 allude particu- 

 larly to either being offered for sale in London. 



The idea or question may suggest itself to the 

 reader, that^ as only comparatively fev/ horses 



