CHAPTER XI 



I HAVE written to little purpose, if my reader 

 should ever require advice to guide him in reference 

 to his warranty ; but my work would be incomplete 

 without it, and with it he may save himself many a 

 six-and-eightpence, if he is after all so unfortunate 

 as to be taken in. 



Every man I believe is pleased with a new horse 

 for the first four-and-twenty hours, on the same prin- 

 ciple that every child is pleased with a new toy : and 

 like the child who throws away the toy the moment 

 it fails to answer expectation, the buyer believes his 

 purchase to be worthless, the instant he detects a 

 fault. This is a serious mistake. There is not one 

 horse in a hundred that is in everv sense sound. 

 There is an important distinction between soundness, 

 in its legal sense, and in its popular acceptation. A 

 lawyer will tell you that every horse is sound that is 



