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CHAP. V. 



THE DIFFERENT VALUE OF DIFFERENT HORSES. THE BEST 



JUDGE OF A HORSE. CASES IN POINT. THE PRICE OT 



PERFECTION. 



IN making so wide a distinction as I do between 

 persons who understand horses and those who do 

 not, I feel myself called on to give some little 

 explanation of what I mean, otherwise I may 

 unintentionally give offence where and when I by 

 no means intend to do so; for understanding a 

 thing or its reverse are only relative terms as to 

 how far the knowledge or the want of it is con- 

 cerned. There are certainly some men who do 

 not know a good-looking horse from a brute 

 thousands that are no judge of a good sort of one 

 or a good goer. 



An uncle of mine went a good deal further. 

 He said, that provided two horses were both 

 black or white or, as he termed them, red, 

 and about the same size, he could see no difference 

 in them. My discernment as regarded his medals 

 or black-letter volumes I dare say was about the 

 same thing. 



There are, perhaps, few men exactly like my 



