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go to the dealer is, he usually goes on the same tack 

 as themselves — buys the raw material, brings it to a 

 state in which it is fit for any person's use, and then, 

 if a man of large means, keeps it for his own, or, if 

 money is an object, sells it to those who do not know 

 enough, or are indisposed to do what he has done. 



Notwithstanding my saying what I have, I have, 

 personally, frequently bought horses of dealers ; but 

 it has been in this way — a dealer sometimes gets 

 hold of a horse that disappoints his hopes ; he has 

 no fault bad enough to return him to the person 

 from whom he was purchased, and yet the failing is 

 such as to be fatal to his sale to the generality of 

 persons. 



This he might not have exhibited at the time 

 he was bought, and perhaps the seller was as little 

 aware of his having it as the purchaser. For in- 

 stance, he may have, in technical terms, " a little will 

 of his own" — perhaps nothing more than a little 

 hesitation at times in obeying the wish of the rider. 

 This, if shown, would deter nine men in ten from 

 buying him. They would suspect its being restive j 



