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every horse of quality in each, which often enables 

 dealers to match horses and make pairs. Buyers can 

 save themselves a great deal of unnecessary trouble by 

 employing one of these men, for knowing everything in 

 the market, they can show you whatever kind of horse 

 you may require, and their judgment is generally good. 

 If you go into a dealer's stable by yourself you will 

 perhaps be persuaded to buy a pair of horses that will 

 not really suit, you buy them thinking perhaps you can 

 do no better elsewhere, whereas there might be horses 

 in the market that would suit your purpose better, if 

 you only knew where to find them. It is therefore ad- 

 visable to secure the services of some one who can be 

 depended upon to select horses which, in the first place, 

 are suitable for the desired pui-pose, providing that the 

 person is one who is known to have had practice and 

 experience among high class carriage horses, and who 

 knoAvs how to put them together and drive them. Unless 

 he does, it is next to impossible for him to tell whether 

 they are the rght kind. There are many different kinds 

 of horses, and as many different kinds of vehicles for 

 bhem to draw. It is therefore most essential that some 

 one, be he buyer, dealer, capper or coachman, should 

 know for which each is most suitable. AVhat I wish to 

 point out is this a man may be a very good judge of one 

 description of horse and for the purpose for which he is 



