PUECHASIXG HOKSES. 13 



PURCHASING HORSES. 



We will suppose a young man come into the pos- 

 session of such means as may enable him to set up 

 an establishment, be it more or less extensive, and 

 to be quite unaccustomed to the possession of horses 

 of any sort. His first difiiculty will be in the 

 purchase of them. We presume that he does not 

 contemplate the making money of them, be they of 

 what kind they may. He may in the first place 

 consider the doing so would be infra dig. ; but, as 

 Sandy has it, " wait a wee," he will alter that opinion 

 in time — but we will say that at the present mo- 

 ment the idea of it, under any circumstances, he 



