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cannot merit talent, be may merit appearance, and by tbat, 

 cause tbe pubbc to tbiuk more of bim. To fartber acquaint 

 our readers, and caution tbem against placing any value on 

 certificates obtained from quaclis and sucb class of men, 

 we sball bere give a case tbat tooli place in Brooklyn, New 

 York. A bay mare seven years old was sold to a butcber 

 for $250.00, by a sale stable keeper, and warranted sound, 

 kind, and true in all barness. Tbe butcber took bim rigbt 

 away to a man (calling bimself a veterinary surgeon, and 

 doing a first-class business, driving a dasbing team), for 

 examining. Tbis quack pronounced tbe mare unsound, and 

 obtained $5.00. On tbe sale stable keeper bearing tbis, 

 he started off to tbe man wbo examined tbe mare, and ask- 

 ed bim bow could be do sucb a tbing, as it will injure 

 bim? — to pass tbe mare as sound and be will give bim 

 $20.00. Tbe quack said, as an excuse, I will examine ber 

 again, wbicb be did, and passed ber as sound ; tbis I can 

 voucb for, baving beard it from tbe sale stable keeper, as 

 well as from tbe butcber; and I was sbown tbe mare some 

 time afterwards, and found tbat sbe was unsound, baving a 

 spavin of tbe off leg, and lame. Tbis will inform our read- 

 ers of tbe value of certificates obtained from sucb class of 

 men. 



I sball make a few remarks regarding tbe soundness and 

 unsoundness in cases of pulmonary disease, as cases are 

 recorded of borses being sold as sound, and in a day or 

 two tbe animal sbowed signs of pneumonia or pleurisy, 

 and tbe animal died witbin eigbt or ten days from tbe date 

 of purcbase. Tbe purcbaser, in sucb a case, contends tbat 

 tbe borse must bave been diseased at tbe time of purcbase, 

 and not sound, as represented on tbe warranty ; but in 

 sucb an opinion tbe purcbaser is greatly mistaken, as a 

 borse migbt be sound on tbe day of sale, but tbe removal 



