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lady, but be the most vicious or useless brute 

 living ; whilst ' For sale, dark chesnut mare, hunted 

 by a lady very fast,' is quite open to presumption 

 that the fast lady hunted the chesnut mare round 

 a field ; and indeed I find two or three horses 

 advertised as ' having been hunted by a lady.' So 

 that the ladies seem to hunt the horses, an amuse- 

 ment, by-the-bye, which does not appear to be con- 

 fined to the female sex, as a gentleman advertises 

 some horses which ' have been hunted by the master 

 and servants.' 



A very sagacious animal is to be disposed of, 

 showing his good taste and preference for ladies, as 

 he is 'A bay horse exceptionally clever, and would 

 carry a lady ;' from which I infer that he was of 

 a very resolute temper, and presumably would not 

 carry a gentleman. As the opposite to the fast 

 lady's horse, there is one described as ' A good lady's 

 horse ;' the announcement, curiously enough, being 

 silent as to the character of the animal itself. 



Singular are the announcements of ponies required 

 for the juvenile members of the community, and the 

 descriptions of animals oflFered for them ; there is 

 ' A perfect child's pony ' — ' A handsome child's pony 

 for sale ;' but there is no mention of whether the 

 ' handsome ' or ' perfect ' child is a boy or a girl, 

 while the pony may be such as is seen carrying on 



