CHAPTER II 



HOW TO BUY A HORSE— FRAUDULENT 



PRACTICES TO BE GUARDED 



AGAINST 



It is perhaps one of the hardest 



things in the world to tell a man how 



he should buy a horse. It is easy to 



fill pages of a book with good advice 



as to what faults should be looked for, 



what good points should be essential, 



but even if the prospective buyer 



carried all the text-books on the 



subject to the place where he was to 



see the animal under consideration, and 

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