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more suitable man than me to help hhn to it, for 

 I am pretty sure I could not. 



If a man is at the expense of keeping horses, 

 though he of course keeps such as please himself, 

 if he is candid he will allow that he wishes to have 

 such as will be admired and esteemed by the class 

 of horsemen with which he most associates, be he 

 a hunting man, trotting man, military man, or 

 the mere park man. "Whether riding or driving 

 be his forte or taste, whether he likes the 

 thorouo'hbred hack or stronor cob, it is all the 

 same: each likes his own judgment to be thought 

 good as regards the style of horse he uses. 



We sometimes see a person on a nondescript 

 useless sort of vrretch, making him show off, and 

 render himself and rider as ostensible as possible. 

 We naturally laugh at such an exhibition, and of 

 course set down the rider as a weak man. I 

 would answer for it that more or less he would 

 be found so ; not because he rode a worthless 

 horse, but because he made a senseless display 

 with him. All observation the horse need call 

 forth would be, that his owner knew nothing 

 of horses. Still men of his own clique would 

 probably think he knew a great deal. Of his 

 own conviction on the subject there need be no 

 doubt. 



One or two recommendations, however, I will 

 venture to give to my reader as regards selecting 



