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warranties, or allow a week's trial before 

 completion of the transaction. This is 

 reasonable, and nothing fairer can be ex- 

 pected. Dealers are also in the habit of 

 advertising horses for sale '* under cover," 

 such as : 



'' Handsome Bay Hunter (property of 

 officer ordered abroad), etc., etc." 



It does not follow that there is any fault with 

 the animal, but this is done simply because 

 many gentlemen have a decided objection to 

 have any transactions with a horse-dealer, 

 and as the last-named knows that there is 

 a stigma hovering around his trade as a 

 whole, he finds it necessary at times to 

 employ means of decoy. 



Commonly, one sees at the end of an 



