126 PEECEPT AND PEACTICE. 



question or two, such as — Does he go in harness? 

 What's his age ? To whom does he belong, and the 

 price ? Having ascertained these points, he perhaps 

 measures the horse by the usual mode of seeing how 

 far he comes in a line with the intended purchaser's 

 nose, mouth, or chin. Such men, from habit, will 

 tell the height to half an inch : he then carefully 

 walks round the horse, casts a hasty glance at him 

 before, behind, and sideways : if he sees anything 

 decidedly objectionable, he merely says, " Thank you, 

 go on," and walks away ; if, on the contrary, he is 

 for the time satisfied with what he sees, he then, and not 

 till then, probably says, " Trot him twenty yards." 



Liking his action, he then further says, *' Just 

 bring him to the end of the fair, out of the crowd." 



This the man will do, seeing he has one to deal 

 with who knows what he is about, and further, seems 

 determined to buy if he can. 



Now it is not to be supposed all this can have been 



done without a hundred eyes having been on the in- 



, tended purchaser. This, if accustomed to the thing, 



he cares not a farthing about — probably he has not 



