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they may, at any rate, decline placing confidence 

 in those with whom they have no previous ac- 

 quaintance. In transactions which are fair, the 

 negotiating party is anxious that every facility be 

 given to a purchaser to see that he is being treated 

 with in good faith ; and we should pause the mo- 

 ment we detect undue haste or reservation, as, in 

 nineteen cases out of twenty, we may depend upon 

 it, there is something suspicious in the transaction. 

 The only safe warranty is a trial of several days, 

 and the disinterested opinion of an experienced 

 veterinary surgeon."*' 



