i6 OBSERVATIONS. 



underilood (by thofe who have run the gaunt- 

 let of experience and deception) to require 

 further animadverfion. 



However, as you can but very feldom pof- 

 fefs the good fortune to purchafe of a gentleman y 

 it will prove no contemptible practice to adopt 

 the fage old maxim, and **deal with znhonejl 

 *' man as you would with 2. rogue:'' this pre- 

 caution may prevent a probable repentance, 

 and palpably urges the neceffity of putting 

 your own judgment and circumfpeclion in 

 competition with the Integrity of your oppo- 

 nent, however he maybe idLWomtdihy fort ufie^ 

 or lanitioned by fitnatioUn 



The prudent or experienced purchafer con-^ 

 fequently commences his taflc of infpe(flion 

 with carcy caution^ and circumJpeBiony firft ac- 

 curately afcertaining the y7j^/»^, 7nakey bone^ and 

 jlrengthi colledting fufficient information from 

 fuch obfervation, whether his qualifications are 

 properly adapted to the purpofes of acquilition* 

 He fees him go all his paces, and forms his 

 own opinion upon each; or perhaps more judi- 

 cioufly avoids every poffibility of trick or decep^ 

 tion, by riding the horfe and thoroughly invef-- 



tigating 



