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Brown. This do possibly makes him look very 

 Black, till he again sells, and again buys one who, 

 on his mounting him, makes him look very Pale, 

 and throws him. This makes him Black-and- 

 blue : he sells him, and gets another bargain. 

 Before mounting, he looks at his bruises ; he finds 

 they are Green ; and when he is mounted, the 

 people look at him, and declare he is Mr. Green 

 again. I have given what I know to be good 

 advice to such persons ; that is — not to buy at 

 all. If, however, they are determined to run the 

 risk of doing so, I will tell them the sort of horse 

 they will have a chance of not losing much by ; 

 and, on the other hand, the sort by which they 

 must lose. 



Every man knows the purpose or purposes for 

 which he wants a horse ; but as possibly he does 

 not know the sort fit for the purpose, let him at 

 least show this much judgment — let him buy 

 one that has been satisfactorily doing the same 

 sort of work he wants him for, and one that has 

 been seasoned to it. Such a horse, from many 

 circumstances, he may have the opportunity of 

 buying at a fair price ; in short, at something like 

 his ordinary value. I am now only alluding to 

 road horses, for we will not suppose any man 

 insane enough to contemplate buying hunters 

 unless he is a good judge of them ; and, indeed, 

 unless he is this, and a good horseman to boot, he 

 will have no occasion, or, I should think, inclina- 



