PREFACE. 



Brotherly love and friendly kindness being 

 generally shown in an inverse ratio in the 

 purchase of a horse to what they are in any 

 other transaction, and the loss sustained from 

 the high price being often ruinous and pro- 

 vokingly vexatious, I publish the following pages, 

 in the hope that you, as well as your noble 

 but ill-treated slave, may mutually derive bene- 

 fit from the contents. 



I have never fallen in with any little pamph- 

 let entirely divested of technical language, such 

 as a tyro would like from its simplicity, giving 

 plain and succinct directions how to purchase a 

 horse for a racer, charger, and hunter, together 

 with an easy account of putting him into con- 



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