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to keep horses for their pleasure, can also afford 

 to pay costs ! they are therefore worth the trou- 

 ble of suing. Moreover, I must do my " order" 

 (as Lord Grey has it) the justice to say, that 

 though little averse to the amusement of jockeying 

 a friend, when they can couple profit vdth a laugh 

 at his expense, there are but few among them so far 

 gone as to brave the opinion of the public, even in a 

 horse-cause ; or to attempt to carry the day by sub- 

 orning a legion of perjured ostlers and stable-boys. 

 "How then am I to sell my horse?" Very 

 paradoxical it may be ; but I reply, " by simply 

 telling the truth !" I have sold my horses with 

 more facility and to more advantage by following 

 this principle than by the most plausible enco- 

 mium of their merits ; and what is of yet greater 

 importance, I have never, in any instance, expe- 

 rienced the annoyance of defending an action on 

 the warranty. Let the fault of a horse be what it 

 may, he will suit some kind' of work, and will 

 therefore find a purchaser at his fair value. A 

 frank acknowledgment of faults, too, will obtain 

 credit for a counter statement of good qualities. 

 If the object is to effect a speedy sale, the Horse 

 and Carriage Registry furnishes the best chance; 

 but even then it is probable, if the seller is veiy 

 impatient, that the purchaser must be looked for 



