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fair produces what he wants : they certainly do mean 

 to buy if what they want presents itself, that is, if by 

 means of the rascality, bullying, blackguardism, and 

 united efforts of themselves and their worthy coad- 

 jutors, they can cajole or bully any one out of his 

 horse for little or nothino:, doin<j also a little business 

 in selling: a refmlar flat-catcher at five times his 

 worth. They are also ready to do any bit of rascality 

 for another dealer, which he, although a rogue, is not 

 open-faced rascal enough to do for himself. To such 

 fellows dealers often entrust the sale of something 

 they may have by them that is too bad to own ; yet 

 Avill you find people weak enough to buy of such 

 fellows a horse for 20/. that any one c^)uld see, who 

 could see at all, would be worth 60/. if he were half 

 what they represented him to be. A man may be 

 taken in by a respectable and fair-dealing exterior; but 

 I do not think I ever saw one of these fellows but on 

 whose countenance was written rascal as legibly as 

 we see Avritten Dr. Eady or Warren's Blacking on the 

 different walls. 



These fellows will be seen either bustling about a 

 fair, or planting themselves at what they call 

 " Catch'em Corner," which means some spot where 

 every horse paraded in the fair must pass them. 

 Here they stop every one, and ascertain the price 

 asked for him. Should they be asked 60/., they will 

 laugh outright, ask if the person thinks them fools, 

 or say, " Ask me 20/., and I'll talk to you." This, 

 though they have no idea of buying the horse, they 

 do for these reasons : it can do them no harm ; no 

 one knows what an owner may take rather than not 

 sell ; and they know it does what it is their business 



