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ON SELLING HORSES. 



S the charitable usually give away that which 

 they do not themselves want, so the owner 

 of horses usually disposes at auction of 

 those which he does not like, or which are, from one 

 cause or another, unsuitable to his requirements — 

 the worn-out, the vicious, or the unsound, the horses 

 which will kick a threepenny bit before them, and 

 on which your neck would be imperilled did they 

 encounter a sixpence or any substance of similar 

 thickness in their path. 



But to this, as to all rules, there are exceptions, as 

 in the instance of your humble servant and others, 

 who sell out for no other reason than to help to pay 

 their corn bills, and who, by buying and making 

 young horses, hope, often vainly, with ordinarily 

 good fortune to get more sport out of their limited 

 incomes than their scantily-filled pockets would 

 otherwise permit of their doing. 



But I have taken pen in hand to write for the 

 benefit of the generality of sellers by auction, and 

 purpose, from experience reaped here and there, as 

 w^ell as from imagination, to offer some hints as to 

 ''descriptions" which may be given, sufficiently mis- 

 leading to deceive the unwary purchaser, and yet 



