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now a little rest, and lay the training on the real 

 donkey for the next twenty years instead, even if he 

 should be one of the human species. As it is, how do 

 the legs and feet of the generality of even seven- 

 eights or three-parts bred horses look ? A most 

 eminent dealer candidly stated to me that for a 

 Charger with the legs and feet that I wanted I must 

 either wait many months before he could suit me, or 

 else I must go abroad and search. A few minutes con- 

 versation with this gentleman was not only agreeable 

 but instructive. He had travelled much, and seemed in 

 nowise bigoted to the particular horse of any country, 

 and fully alive to the fact that when Frenchmen or 

 foreigners came to England to purchase, they took 

 good care to reject all your half stumped-up ones, 

 whether they came in first or last. And this reminds 

 me of the great dissatisfaction which seems to have 

 existed in various quarters of the Hunters, Hacks, &c., 

 that were selected for rewards at some great slioiv. It 

 was hinted that Horses, both English and Foreign, 

 with indifferent eyes, indifferent pipes, indifferent legs 

 and fetlocks, and worse than indifferent feet, had 

 obtained both praises and prizes. To give praises 

 would have been bad enough. Let us in charity say 

 that nobody could have been guilty of giving prizes to 



