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backwards something like the strings of a harp, and 

 may probably be about as long as those that make 

 the hiirh notes on that instrument — a diminution that 

 Bochsa will probably approve for a harp, but which I 

 do not consider quite so desirable in a horse. 



Let us now see what B. has been at with his pur- 

 chase. I will be bound to say A. did more with his 

 in the way of wasting in a fortnight than B. did in a 

 month, though he had probably given him three q. s. 

 doses of physic in the time. Here he comes, light- 

 ened too of all unnecessary avoirdupois, but cutting 

 rather a different figure, — in high spirits from vigour 

 of constitution— his eye like those of the gazelle — I 

 had almost said of the fair Theobald herself; his 

 muscles, now relieved from any superfluous appen- 

 dage, beautifully developed ; showing a form that in 

 the horse indicates what that of Mr. Jackson, so well 

 known in the pugilistic world, did in his palmy days 

 in a man — strength, courage, and activity. Yes, as 

 a boy, I well remember Jackson the heau ideal of a 

 fine man, though not then a young one — of course 

 never a fine gentleman, but a fine fellow, and no 

 small share of the gentleman in him either. 



Mais revenons a nos moutons. Here is one horse, 

 in trade language, certainly fifty per cent, of less 

 value than when bought ; the other, to say the least, 

 thirty per cent, better ; and why ? A fine eye with 

 fine judgment saw what the one horse would become ; 

 whereas the want of both prevented the other pur- 

 chaser seeing what the other horse would degenerate 

 into : added to which is to be the treatment after- 

 wards. The different position of these two Gentlemen 

 after purchase will show why men who know nothing 

 of what they are about universally abuse horse-dealers, 



