PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. V 



entertain a hope, from the circumstance of this 

 second Edition being called for. 



Finding the " Pocket and Stud " was meeting a 

 rapid sale, I wrote and published a companion 

 to it u The Stud for Practical Purposes and 

 Practical Men." This work keeps in view the 

 interest of the Pocket and Stud quite as much 

 as its predecessor, and some particulars to a still 

 greater extent. 



It sets before the reader the consequences to 

 be expected from the different ailments, general 

 imperfections, and peculiar habits of the horse, 

 whether arising from treatment or natural causes, 

 showing where he may venture to purchase, and 

 where it would be judicious to reject an animal, 

 under the influence of any of the imperfections or 

 peculiarities alluded to. 



"The POCKET and the STUD" has been, I 

 am aware, a taking title to that book ; for, as the 

 world is now constituted, a vast number of its in- 

 habitants are at once on the qui vive where any 

 thing relative to a saving of the pocket is con- 

 cerned. So be it ; and under the impression that 

 it is so, I venture to recommend " The Stud for 

 Practical Purposes " for the reader's perusal, feeling 

 perfectly confident that, if the hints given in the 

 " Pocket and Stud " may be the means of saving 



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