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Estafette, or express, was established by 

 the English merchants between London 

 and Liverpool, do you suppose it would 

 arrive at its destination unmolested ? — 

 Query, would it ever pass beyond Finchley 

 Common in safety ? 



Mr. Corbet thought it necessary to bring 

 forward a certain number of young horses 

 to keep his establishment effective in that 

 department ; his plan was to purchase in 

 their raw state the promising young horses 

 of four and five years old, bred in his own 

 country (Shropshire), celebrated at that 

 time for its excellent breed of hunters, par- 

 ticularly those from the Bridgenorth Snap, 

 which were pleasant horses to ride, free at 

 their leaps, but always collected ; with ex- 

 cellent constitutions, fine action, and no 

 tire in them; they would have thought 

 themselves disgraced to have been dis- 

 mounted after a twenty minutes burst over 

 any country. When broke, and made handy 



