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be trusted. From Kenrick, especially, I have met 

 with very liberal treatment ; and I have bought 

 two excellent horses out of his stables. I doubt 

 if he really knew their character when he sold 

 them, though he undoubtedly fully appreciated 

 their value ! I have since re-sold them both, after 

 more than a year's use of them. One became 

 lame, and I was obliged to sell him at a considera- 

 ble loss without a warranty. The other was sold 

 to advantage. 



Some persons in the trade have found great 

 fault with me for thus specifying individuals ; and 

 with natural jealousy have founded upon it an 

 opinion, that I know nothing on the subject. 

 To this I reply, that I like to speak of people 

 as I find them, I have either personally, or 

 through my friends, found all these men treat a 

 customer with fairness and honesty ; I am there- 

 fore entitled to presume that such is their general 

 system — for so entirely am I a stranger to them, 

 that though I believe they all know me very well 

 by name, I have not received even the simple 

 acknowledgment of thanks from more than one of 

 them, for the recommendation that I have here 

 given of their stables. I do not, however, blame 

 them for the omission, though it seems a little un- 

 grateful. My real object, and of that they are 



