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the trainers, half the hunters, and half the dealers 

 used them. To these last I have replied that I had 

 not the smallest objection to bandages, but that I had 

 the greatest objection to legs that so much required 

 them. The answer, I am inclined to think, was fully 

 as useful as their unrivalled management. I have 

 visited the stables of these first-rate fielders. Stables ! 

 Animals tied up in stalls of about six feet in width, 

 so that it was dangerous to their backs even to turn 

 in. I have had occular demonstrative proof of the 

 manifold advantages of their treatment. Legs put 

 before me that any fox would be frightened at running 

 foul of, and that even harriers would feel huffed at 

 being hunted with ; yet there are countless cherry- 

 ripe crying songsters who would fain persuade me 

 that these oblong donkey-footed five and twenty 

 pounders, so well known with the Hack and Hansom 

 hounds for carrying peas around their pasterns, would, 

 like the trainers' cast off screws, do also very well for 

 ordinary riding, and would make such pretty park 

 paraders. Beautiful ! Nothing wanted but a bumpkin 

 on the saddle to perfect the picture. After Hstening 

 to these disinterested dissertations, I could not help 

 being forcibly reminded of the hairdresser who so 

 similarly eulogized his hair preparations, and assured 

 me of the certain improvement they would be to my 



