I HAVE written to little purpose, if my reader 

 should ever require advice to guide him in refer- 

 ence to his warranty; but my work would be 

 incomplete without it, and with it he may save 

 himself many a six-and-eightpence, if he is after 

 all so unfortunate as to be taken in. 



Every man I believe is pleased with a new horse 

 for the first four-and-twenty hours, on the same 

 principle that every child is pleased with a new 

 toy : and like the child who throws away the toy 

 the moment it fails to answer expectation, the 

 buyer believes his purchase to be worthless, the 

 instant he detects a fault. This is a serious mis- 

 take. There is not one horse in a hundred that is 

 in every sense sound. There is an important dis- 

 tinction between soundness, in its legal sense, and 

 in its popular acceptation. A lawyer will tell you 



