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sort^ but particularly, however, to some of the 2S. n^?. 

 sort I before alluded to. 



I have only in one or two instances ever particu- 

 larised (in what I have written) any individual or es- 

 tablishment, unless where I felt I could indulge in the 

 pleasure of doing so in terms of commendation. 

 When I have done otherwise, the persons mentioned 

 or alluded to deserved much more than I said of 

 them. I had a hint given me some time since, that a 

 definition of the characters of the different leading 

 horse-dealers in London and the country would be 

 acceptable to the public, but it would be an ungra- 

 cious task, and one I should be very reluctant to un- 

 dertake. Whether I may ever mention the names of 

 some that I consider worthy the confidence of the 

 public would be another affair. If I were a vain or 

 ostentatious man, I might be tempted to do this^ as 

 those gentlemen might in return immortalise my name 

 by jointly purchasing a second-hand mile-stone to be 

 erected to the memory of Harry Hie'over ; that is, if 

 they could find a spot of ground sufficiently waste 

 to get permission to put it up. 



I have mentioned my dislike to particularise per- 

 sons and places unless in a perfectly commendatory 

 way. But I wish my readers to be satisfied that all 

 (and of course ten times as much as) I have stated 

 'may be done in repositories / know has been done ; 

 but I by no means wish to indicate where. The sujJ- 

 posed cases I have stated I have seen take place. 



So long since as the year 1825, I w^as ordered to a 

 certain part of Her Majesty's dominions where there 

 was and now is one of the largest repositories known. I 

 was stationed there eleven years, and having plenty 



