HORSE TRAINING 



MADE EASY. 



A FEW HINTS ON BUYING. 



Perhaps the most difficult thing to buy in the 

 world is a horse. Nothing lends itself, however 

 unwillingly, to fraud and chicanery so readily. 

 A great writer once observed, "There's some- 

 thing about horse dealing that makes a man a 

 blackguard, in spite of himself." Without en- 

 tirely subscribing to this theory, the fact 

 remains, that men, otherwise "straight" in their 

 business and social transactions, will occasion- 

 ally be found straining a point in order to sell 

 some worthless animal as a good horse. The 

 temptation to "get out" of a bad trade is great. 

 What can be more distressing than to find one- 

 self with a horse that is never well two days 

 running, a confirmed jibber. To avoid the temp- 

 tation of "letting in" some hapless fellow-crea- 

 ture for such a beast, let us, then, exercise all 

 our powers of discretion in the original selection 

 and purchase, and, above all, let us take our 

 time and wait our opportunities. No one 

 can recommend you where to go; there is no 

 growing ground for horses; neither can we get 

 them made for us, even at St. Louis. I have picked 

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