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horses at work, and bought them at really good 

 prices ; so he actually got his work done, done well, 

 and all the time his horses were growing into money. 



But it is time we should now enter a little into the 

 minutiae of the different treatment of horses of their 

 separate classes. 



We will first look to such horses as we may sup- 

 pose a gentleman to purchase. There are manj* per- 

 sons who are quite decided in their opinion, that in 

 buying a very young horse, he must grow into 

 money ; there can be no doubt but that in buying a 

 very young one, say three j-ears old, he will, in the 

 common course of events, be worth more when he is 

 four ; but whether he will be worth so much more 

 as to -poj for a year's keep, time, and attention, de- 

 pends, of course, on how much he improves. The 

 ''how much" sets at defiance often the very best 

 judgment; consequently, the man without such 

 judgment is virtually playing at a game of chance 

 in the dark ; and this want of judgment is the 

 very thing that would prevent any one persuad- 

 ing or convincing him that he is doing this ; for 



