ADVICE TO YOUNG COURSERS. 



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win a stake in public ; for, except under particular circumstances, 

 no one will part with them. Even in the sale of an entire kennel, 

 there are always some few in the secret who buy up the valuable 

 lots, and the inexperienced eye has little chance in competition 



1 MOCKIXG BIRD. 



with the man who is in the secret, and has made it also the 

 business of his life. 



It may be said, and it is quite true, that ' Mocking Bird ' was 

 bought for a small sum by auction, but it was by a good judge, 



