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not clone so, but it has given coachee time to get another 

 pair ready " cut and dried." The lady cannot longer 

 do without her carriage : what is to be done ? " It 

 is a great pity ! they were a nice pair of horses ! no 

 horses could have gone better till this happened ! " 

 The lady agrees that they did so, and believes it ; but 

 what is to be done ? She wants the carriage, and can 

 no longer do without it. Now, though coachee had 

 quite made up his mind that the horses should go 

 without the carriage, it is impossible for the lady to 

 make the carriage go without the horses ; so it ends 

 in his being desired to sell them. This he promises 

 to do to the best advantage — to himself he means. 

 And here he sees a fine field for speculation open to 

 him — in the pair to be sold, and in the pair to be 

 bought. The first thing he does is to get a pack of 

 low dealers to see these horses : Ave will say, taking 

 them as they are, they are worth 70/. as a pair of job 

 horses: in short, they are worth as much as when 

 they were bought. His next object is to find, among 

 this set, who will give him most ; if he can persuade 

 his lady to take 40/., he selects the best customer; 

 and to show his own perfect honesty, gets his lady 

 to see the purchaser, and hear what he says about the 

 horses. He (the purchaser) is made quite au fait as 

 to what he is to say, and the kind of observations 

 to make. It would not do to speak in lowering terms 

 of the horses so far as regards their class and quality. 

 If he did, where would be his friend coachee's judg- 

 ment in buying them ? No ; he goes upon another 

 tack. " They have been as fine a pair of horses as 

 he would wish to see: he would rather give 150/. for 

 such a pair sound, than 40/. for them as they are. 

 He knovrs a nobleman who would give 50/. for the 



