CAPRICE. 



SELLING. 



If the horse you wish to dispose of be a fancy one, 

 either for beauty, action, or disposition, and a fancy 

 price be required, efforts must be made to obtain the 

 fancy customer to suit, and time and attention must 

 be devoted to that object. But if he be of the ordinary 

 useful class, unless a purchaser be found at once, let 

 the owner, directly he has made up his mind to part 

 with him, think of the best market available, whether 

 public auction, a fair, or private sale by commission. 



The public auction, with a good description of the 

 animal's merits, if he has any, is the readiest and least 

 troublesome mode of disposing of all unsuitable pro- 

 perty ; and from my own experience, I should say that 

 the better plan is to make up one's mind positively 

 to dispose of such the first time it is put up by the 

 auctioneer, having, of course, placed a reasonable and 

 rather low reserve price on it, and provided that the 

 sale be fairly attended by purchasers ; otherwise I should 

 not allow my property to be offered until a more favour- 

 able opportunity. 



A valuable and fancy animal, if his owner is not 

 pressed to sell, had better be disposed of by full adver- 

 tisement and private sale at his own stable. 



CAPHICE.* 



AU horsemen know how whimsical horses are, and 



the best riders feel a certain amount of diffidence, and 



* A suggestion has been made by one of the ablest reviewers 



