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they have had enough of London stone pavements, 

 are sold in foal by transport companies. See recent 

 advertisements in the daily press, and then give us 

 the lie. 



At the Northern Horse Eepository go and see 

 every Friday a sale of foreign horses that always are 

 unshod, at least on the hind feet. The sellers are 

 evidently wide enough awake to have perceived that 

 there is some advantage in showing them off in this 

 state, or else they would clap shoes on to them, to 

 give them a fictitious value. Horse-dealers suppose 

 themselves to be up to e\ery dodge, and this is one, 

 amongst others, that they are keeping as ' dark ' as 

 they can. The innocent (or ignorant) acquirers of 

 these animals (as we have found out by frequent 

 attendance at these sales) never dream of putting 

 them to work until the farrier has been allowed to 

 exercise those brutalities, in which he is such an 

 adept, upon their feet. 



These writings could be prolonged by pushing 

 arguments and quotations ; but we are inclined to 

 think that enough has been said on the present oc- 

 casion, which we regard strictly as a first stage upon 

 the road. We are not sanguine enough to believe 

 for a moment that we can bring about a sudden 

 revulsion, although we may, perhaps, have helped on 

 a movement which will not be arrested. We have 

 vouchers that some readers have been able to keep 

 their attention sufficiently alive to go through a 

 course of nearly seven months' weekly reading on 

 the subject in the ' Farm Journal,' and this is en- 



