90 PTIECEPT ATfD PEACTTCE. 



As some balm to the self-pride of any who may get 

 into a similar predicament, let it be recollected that 

 no man living is, nor can be, awake to the tricks and 

 rascality of all classes. The man who could judge 

 the weight of jewels to half a carat, and their value 

 to a sovereign, would be a perfect muff if he ventured 

 on the Stock Exchange. The man considered the 

 most knowing of the latter place would be, per- 

 haps, a mere child as to knowledge in purchasing 

 horses. Thus it would be seen each man is knowing 

 enough in things and matters with which he is con- 

 versant, though showing as all but a simpleton in 

 regard to those to which he is and has been unac- 

 customed. 



The intention of this paper is to put people some- 

 what on their guard against being taken in by adver- 

 tised horses. From habit and experience, I think I 

 may say that in nineteen cases in twenty I will form 

 a shrewd guess at something like what I should see 

 were I to go to any advertised horses. Not, of course, 

 that I mean in any way to insinuate that horses and 

 advertisements are to be feared or avoided ; I only 



