BU DRIVING AS I FOUND IT. 



GENTLEMEN DEALEKS. 



There is one point I must respectfully impress upon 

 my readers, i. e., being a first rate judge of a horse 

 win not enable him to be a horse dealer. A gentleman 

 may know perfectly well the relative value of horses 

 and may easily ascertain the value of any other article 

 of merchandise so far as buying and selling goes. He 

 may even learn where in some measure how to buy and 

 sell a horse to the best advantage, but this does not 

 qualify him for a horse dealer. I am sure that no gentle- 

 man ever has or ever will succeed as a regular horse 

 dealer. That there are however many who in a private 

 way do to a very considerable extent deal in horses, 

 is a notorious fact and a fact very much to be regretted. 

 It is a subject of still further regret that among them 

 are found those who in every other transaction are 

 men of unblemished honor aii,d integrity. If these 

 gentlemen conceive that they carry on this underhand 

 kind of private trade without it calling forth very 

 severe animadversion from those who abstain from it 

 they very much deceive themselves, and they labor under 

 the influence of a stiU further error if they suppose 



