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to equal privileges and advantages, like railway 

 passengers, and that no distinction would be made 

 between ladies who are handsome and those who 

 unfortunately may be the reverse. This, however, 

 is not the case, as the advertisement of the Calais- 

 Douvres steamer announces that there are 'Handsome 

 ladies' cabins ;' but no mention is made of any cabins 

 being provided for the poor ladies who may not 

 happen to be handsome. 



I gather from the various advertisements I have 

 collected, that a study of Lindley Murray might 

 probably conduce to a more lucid expression of the 

 advertisers' meanings ; and those respecting horses 

 seem not to have put the horse before the cart, but 

 rather to have put the owner before the horse, and 

 described the former instead of the latter. 



To these remarks on purchasing horses by adver- 

 tisement I would add a few words respecting private 

 purchase. 



I heard it said many years since, but where, or by 

 whom, I cannot now remember, that there were three 

 things a man should never lend— his wife, his horse, 

 or his razor. 



To anyone contemplating any such loan, I would 

 say, in the words of Punch to persons about to 

 marry — 'Don't.' The same advice, I think, would 

 also be applicable to anyone about to purchase a 



