HOW TO BUY AND SELL. 81 



HEIGHT AXD AGE. 



The last form is also a warranty of age — that he is past 

 his fifth and not yet m his seventh year; for horses never 

 alter less than one year at a time. If you can prove he 

 has not arrived at his sixth year, or that he has entered 

 his seventh, you can, if you are so disposed, return the 

 horse. 



You will perceive that this last receipt is for a horse — 

 meaning thereby an entire one — neither gelding nor 

 mare. His height is also mentioned; but if you have any 

 particular reason for stating his exact height, it must be 

 on the special warranty placed after the word "height," 

 and not Ijefore it, or it will be presumed that you might 

 have had him measured at the time of purchase. In 

 order to avoid quibbling, it is the best way, where a given 

 height is required, to put the horse under the standard. 

 Even then there is much sleight of hand going on. Strict 

 attention must, therefore, be paid if you are in any way 

 particular to an inch. From the foregoing observations 

 it will be seen that a simple warranty — '' free from vice," 

 applies to the stable only; to be quiet in his work, and 

 each particular kind of work, must be specified, as in the 

 first receipt. 



QUIET IN^ HARN"ESS. 



"Warranted quiet in harness" does not imply the long 

 usage of a horse to that particular kind of work, or that 

 he has become particularly handy. All that it engages is 

 that the horse has been used sufiiciently to prove that 

 any coachman of tolerable ability may drive him without 

 accident. Therefore, after buying a horse thus warrant- 

 ed, before you put yourself to any expense in returning 

 him on account of an accident, be sure the accident was 

 not caused through your own negligence. A little iiegli- 



