. Chips, sporting & otherwise : in verse & prose. Horses; Fox hunting. (0n felling f^ovscs'. 167 ON SELLING S the charitable usually give away that which they do not themselves want, so the owner of horses usually disposes at auction of those which he does not like, or which are, from one cause or another, unsuitable to his requirements— the worn-out, the vicious, or the unsound, the horses which will kick a threepenny bit before them, and on which your neck would be imperilled did they encounter a sixpence or any substance of similar thickness in their path. But to this, as t
. Chips, sporting & otherwise : in verse & prose. Horses; Fox hunting. (0n felling f^ovscs'. 167 ON SELLING S the charitable usually give away that which they do not themselves want, so the owner of horses usually disposes at auction of those which he does not like, or which are, from one cause or another, unsuitable to his requirements— the worn-out, the vicious, or the unsound, the horses which will kick a threepenny bit before them, and on which your neck would be imperilled did they encounter a sixpence or any substance of similar thickness in their path. But to this, as to all rules, there are exceptions, as in the instance of your humble servant and others, who sell out for no other reason than to help to pay their corn bills, and who, by buying and making young horses, hope, often vainly, with ordinarily good fortune to get more sport out of their limited incomes than their scantily-filled pockets would otherwise permit of their doing. But I have taken pen in hand to write for the benefit of the generality of sellers by auction, and purpose, from experience reaped here and there, as w^ell as from imagination, to offer some hints as to ''descriptions" which may be given, sufficiently mis- leading to deceive the unwary purchaser, and yet. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Wedge, F. L. W. Coventry : W. W. Curtis ; London : Hamilton, Adams
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