birth up, which would soon be outclassed in every field 

 of utility or amusement. Where he was successful in 

 convincing a large or small breeder that to continue pro- 

 duction was to court bankruptcy, the lessened production 

 increased thereby the scarcity of horses and also very 

 naturally the price of those still produced. He was then 

 able to put forward the high price of horses as another 

 reason why one should not buy them but rather invest 

 in a motorized vehicle which would do everything but 

 talk, would cover a fabulous number of miles at a nominal 

 cost and which, according to him, would last practically 

 forever. (He did not mention the sort of language it 

 would produce from its owner when a tire blew up or it 

 sidled into a ditch.) 



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