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registry book, as £100, for example, they cannot 

 afterwards, when the purchaser is introduced to 

 them, take advantage of his ignorance or extrava- 

 gance, and raise the price to £150 !! ! The ab- 

 surdity of this objection is not less gross than its 

 avowed dishonesty ; for surely it is better for 

 dealers to secure the sale of even one horse at a 

 fair remunerating price, than to lose the opportu- 

 nity of cheaply advertising and perhaps selling 

 a score, lest they should also lose a fancy customer, 

 who, unless he saw their horses in the Registry, 

 would never enter their stables at all, unless by 

 chance. This objection, however, has been 

 avowed to me by some high men in the trade, as 

 sufficient to deter them from thus advertising their 

 studs ! After explaining the motive to my readers, 

 they will naturally infer that any eminent dealers 

 whose names are not in the Registry, are men with 

 whom it is not very safe to " do business," unless 

 they prefer giving a fancy price to the fair and 

 honest market value of the horse. 



I have entered somewhat largely into the princi- 

 ple of this Horse and Carriage Registry, not only 

 because I decidedly approve of the plan, if honour- 

 ably conducted, (as I have every reason to believe, 

 from my knowledge of the parties connected with 

 it, that it will be,) but because I have been very 



