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back, and comes out looking like himself and '* all 

 right." We will now suppose he has been ridden, 

 brought back, and approved of: he is then not allowed 

 to stand one minute, but is taken at once into the 

 stable — for this reason, he has been seen and ridden, 

 and has given satisfaction, and he may therefore be 

 considered sold. No advantage could be gained by 

 his being further inspected ; therefore, while all is 

 well and the customer favourably impressed with his 

 merits, he is taken away, lest by any possibility he 

 may do something to offend, or look to less advantage 

 than he has hitherto done. Now the private indivi- 

 dual knows nothing about the necessity of attending 

 to all these minutias : it never struck him they were 

 attended to, because it was all done as a matter of 

 course and habit, consequently there was nothing 

 particular in the conduct of the dealer or his man. 

 No orders were given ; but it was done : and by this 

 kind of apparently simple routine many a customer 

 is done also — I should on second thought rather 

 say induced to buy, for in all this really nothing 

 in any way unfair has been practised. The dealer 

 has, like any other tradesman, set his goods off to the 

 best advantage, and his man only done his part to 

 the same purpose. The man who keeps a muslin and 

 lace shop parades his goods, and his Hyperion-curled 

 assistant shows his lace over his hand. I allow this 

 to be all fair, and the dealer in horses and the dealer 

 in lace are equally honest. Tlie two subordinates are 

 also equally honest, though not equally respectable, 

 for I never can hold that man in respect that does 

 what is not the province of a man to do. The dealer's 

 man does what no woman could do ; the other does 

 what only a woman ought to do. 



