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even if he read every word of that 

 advice, glancing the while at the steed, 

 if the text-book student had not had 

 previous experience, if he had not a 

 natural gift for finding and appreciating 

 the good or bad points, then the 

 probabilities would be that he would 

 err in some little detail. Buying a 

 horse has been declared to be as 

 difficult as the choice of a wife, and 

 although this may in some degree be 

 true, it is perfectly certain that whilst 

 the dissatisfied purchaser can always 

 send the horse to the nearest repository, 

 the dissatisfied husband must— but why 

 pursue the subject further ? 



