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' Very well ; then I will ride over this after- 

 noon and see if it suits them for us to come on 

 Saturday. Monday is the first of September. 

 By the bye, I must have a chat with Turner 

 about the birds.' 



' Him and me is very big folks now, sir,' 

 said Purlby ; ' and he says it has been a capital 

 breeding season.' 



* By the way, what do you think of the new 

 lot of horses ? ' 



' Well, sir, I think they are nice ones — nice 

 breedy 'osses I call them ; but you could have 

 got them in England just as good.' 



' Certainly I could, but what should I have 

 had to pay for them here ? ' 



' Well, there's two or three that looks like a 

 hundred and fifty and two hundred apiece.' 



* Ah, that is where the pull comes in ; 

 there is only one horse amongst the lot that I 

 gave as much as fifty pounds for. However, 

 I don't wish you to mention anything about 

 the price to anybody. I think that two of them 

 can win steeplechases, and I mean to have a 



