102 THE HORSE. 



The difference between the horse that has never been 

 worked, and a used or worked one, is easily detected. 



Horses that show signs of past work, yet perform the 

 amount of labor due from one of their class, ought to be 

 warranted as " worked horses." 



Thus, when a worked horse is no longer qualified for 

 the same kind of work as that which he has been accus- 

 tomed to, or where he has such of the above-mentioned 

 trifling drawbacks, as are not detrimental to his fulfill- 

 ing his vocation, he should bear a warranty, at the very 

 least, as a ^'used horse;" and where a worked horse be- 

 comes degraded to a lower class (as in the case of a horse 

 which, no longer suitable for a hunter or saddle-horse, 

 yet makes a very good harness-horse), he should be de- 

 scribed in the warranty as a '^ used horse, for harness 

 only." 



By the largest users of this class of horse, this want is 

 well known and much felt; and although legislation has 

 not provided such a form of conditional warranty, yet it 

 is frequently given and taken by stage-coach owners and 

 others. The warranties, liowever, accepted by such per- 

 sons, often allow too great laxity in the case of horses in- 

 tended for ordinary 2:)ur2ioses. 



This is mentioned to show how easy it would be to 

 frame such a warranty for used horses, as would benefit 

 and satisfy both purchasers and vendors. 



Tliree-fourths, at the least, of our hunters, though not, 

 in strictness, entitled to it, do bear a warranty; and, in 

 fact, as they do their work well, and may never have been 

 lame, or if lame — lame for only a very short j^eriod — no 

 one discovers in them any deviation from that standard 

 of excellence which is implied in the magic word — ^'War- 

 ranted. " 



Where then is the harm of those supposed defects which 

 causes no inconvenience to our saddle and other horses? 

 Change of structure is not so much looked for or com- 



