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owners and post-masters. The warranties, however, 

 accepted by such persons, often allow too great laxity 

 in the case of horses intended for ordinary purposes. 



This is mentioned to show how easy it would be 

 to frame such a warranty for used horses, as would 

 benefit and satisfy both purchasers and vendors 



Three-fourths, at the least, of our hunters, though 

 not, in strictness, entitled to it, do bear a warranty ; 

 and, in fact, as they do their work well, and may never 

 have been lame, or if lame lame for only a very short 

 period no one discovers in them any deviation from 

 that standard of excellence which is implied in the 

 magic word " Warranted." 



Where then is the harm of those supposed defects 

 which cause no inconvenience to our hackneys and our 

 post-horses ? Change of structure is not so much 

 looked for or commented upon in the slower going 

 draught-horse, in whom such change of structure is 

 produced more gradually, owing to the gentle pace at 

 which he is generally worked. All that is expected 

 of him being that he shall do his allotted work 

 properly : however, some of the Bremers are scrupu- 

 lously particular even in this case. 



Aged Horses. 



Another plea in favour of a definite form of warranty 

 for used horses is to be found in the facts 



