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dwellers in Mount-street wefe to lose sight of their 

 almanacks and the swallows, they would know that 

 spring had come again by the endless supply of stout 

 cobs and park hacks which would, week after week, 

 take up their fleeting habitation among them. Mr. 

 Thomas Sell acts as London salesman for Mr. 

 Collins, who, along with his fidiis Achates , James 

 Brewster, visits every great fair out of the 190 odd 

 which the trade professes to frequent, not only in the 

 midland counties and the north, but in Oxfordshire, 

 Wiltshire, and, in short, wherever he can get a wind- 

 scent of a hkely horse. He is. a striking instance 

 of what honesty and good judgment can do for a 

 man. We remember him, about 1840, driving his 

 roan pony to Osborne's, in Gray's Inn-lane, to 

 buy " machiners ;" and his rise since then, through 

 the successive stages of Aldridge's and Tattersall's, 

 to be the wholesale Leviathan of the trade, has 

 been wonderfully steady and rapid. The pretty 

 general belief among the initiated is, that he sells 

 upwards of eleven hundred animals in the course of 

 the year, at an average of 80/. apiece ; and, as a type 

 of the universality of his business, we may mention 

 that, as we strolled through his stables, we espied 

 a first-class hunter almost cheek by jov/1 with a 

 spotted cob, who looked quite ripe for the jocular 

 society of the late Tom Barry over the way. All the 

 great London dealers purchase from him ; and their 

 French brethren. Benedick, Cremieux, Angell, &c., 

 are among his largest customers, and occasionally go 

 as high as 170/. for a riding horse. 



Mr. Joseph Anderson is also at the very top of the 

 tree, and buys largely, through an agent, of first-class 

 hunters and hacks ; he has, in fact, long been to 

 Piccadilly what Benedick is to the Champs Ely sees; 

 and his brother, Mr. John Anderson, has a very rising 

 business at Green-street, Grosvenor-square. Mr. 

 Quartermaine, who once "hailed" from Oxford, buys 



