22 OBSERVATIONS. 



from a repofitory equally rare with a capital 

 prize ill the lottery. 



In the midft of thefe very neceffary confi- 

 derations it muft be remembered fuch heb- 

 domadal fales are not without their acknow- 

 ledged conveniences; for although they are 

 by no means calculated to buy at, they are mod 

 admirably adapted iov felling. Here you may, 

 in compliance with cuJlo?n and the full force of 

 fajhion, get rid of the blind, lame^ reftive^ broken 

 winded, Jplented, fpavmed^ or glandered horfe, 

 without remorfe or fear of punifhment. The 

 feller, whether a nominal gentleman without 

 honour^ or the dealer wixho\M pri?tcipley is en- 

 titled to every degree of duplicity he can bring 

 into pradice 5 they lay equal claim to the privi- 

 lege of obliq'iely puffing their own horfes (as 

 ftanders-by praifing their unequalled qualifica- 

 tions), and bidding for them with a,i affeded 

 enthufiafm, thereby inducing the unwary to 

 proceed in the purchafe very much beyond the 

 intrinfic value. The credulous ^2<:/>^ becomes in 

 a fhort time convinced of the bubble^ and is in 

 pofleflion of no confolation but the law of re- 

 taliation, by a repetition of transfer 5 neceffity 

 pompels him to fell at the fame or sijimilar 



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