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no alternative but to offer them to their confiding 

 customers as valuable fresh horses ; and if not valuable, 

 still fresh they undoubtedly are, and well suited to 

 freshmen, for they serve to impart to them valuable 

 experience. Many of the elite of this class on 

 " coming out " keep entirely outside the thorough-bred 

 railings, yet it is amusing to witness the adroitness 

 with which even their pockets are pruned in the small 

 way, and that, often, by their quondam own collegiate 

 friends. 



" Quoerenda pecunia primum, virtus post nummos." 

 Make money by our horses ; virtuous donkeys are our forces. 



Consequently they are from necessity continually chop- 

 ping and changing. The hunting season past, and all 

 the foxes gone under the hills, they jump to the conclu- 

 sion that this must be the most opportune time to come 

 over the " flats," and it is surprising to see what adepts 

 they suddenly become, not only in the knowledge of 

 rolling bandages, but also in subsequently getting rid 

 of their " capital cross country conductors." Their 

 very superior stable management has often been 

 graphically described to me. One has assured me of 

 the magical efficacy of his purifying plasters, and of 

 his evaporating lotions ; another of his unequalled 

 ointment for the feet ; while many have catechized 

 me as to why I could object to bandages when half 



