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founded: and as no stabling is attached to the 

 estabHshment, it seems impossible that it can in 

 any way interfere with the business of the trade, 

 except so far as it facilitates it. 



But my principal motive for alluding to it is, 

 that the projectors have endeavoured to introduce 

 a plan of warranty, which promises to supersede 

 much litigation, combined as it is with this de- 

 scriptive record of the horses on sale. There are 

 two chief sources of litigation about horseflesh, as 

 the adventures detailed in the following pages 

 abundantly prove: either that the purchase does 

 not answer the warranted description as to quali- 

 ties and capabilities, or that the horse is unsound 

 from disease. The first, and perhaps the most 

 prolific of these sources, is cut off by registering 

 the description of the horse: for it is for the 

 interest of the seller to describe him truly, or he is 

 only introduced to a purchaser that will not buy a 

 horse " of that sort." If A, for instance, who wants 

 the hunter I have described, finds, on arriving at 

 the dealer's stables, that he is introduced to a 

 common hack, he walks away dissatisfied, and 

 will not buy : thus B, the seller, will lose his cus- 

 tomer by his own want of veracity ; while if he 

 had truly described him as a hack or roadster, he 

 would have been introduced only to a buyer in 



