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reply made to this— If you are qualified to do it, do 

 it by all means : but to many of those proposing this 

 with horses, I might probably say. Can you make a 

 watch ? or, if a faulty one, can you improve it ? The 

 answer would in most cases be — No. To very many I 

 should say, You could no more make a hunter, or im- 

 prove a faulty one, so you had better leave the doing 

 either to those qualified to do both. 



Another feature in the hunting dealer's business 

 is the purchasing young ones, that is, chiefly four 

 years' old ones ; those, of course, he will not meddle 

 with, if showing natural irremediable imperfections. 

 Persons who kngw the man, if he is one of note, such 

 as, for instance, the Andersons or Elmores, or the late 

 Thomas Smart, know such persons will only pur- 

 chase such young horses as promise to become quite 

 or very nearly first-rates, so they, that is, purchasers, 

 are quite ready to repurchase such horses, either as 

 quite untaught ones, or in their different stages of 

 improvement ; and unless purchasers are themselves 

 first-rate judges, they cannot do better than purchase 

 from those who are ; they are then pretty sure of 



