HINTS ON BUYING. 5 



unpleasant, it is not equally dangerous, to have a horse with 

 a bad mouth in the saddle as it is in harness ; one that is 

 not readily " steerable " will prove a terrible nuisance, if 

 nothing worse, in driving. There are dozens of other things, 

 which experience alone will teach, to be looked to in the 

 choice and selection of horses, and I have only attempted the 

 roughest outline in these hints, feeling that it would be 

 courting failure to go into such a matter at any greater 

 length. 



