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his bad taste and worse judgment, sells liim at any 

 price ; the good judge buys him, and, probably, the 

 same day, sees the animal in his proper place, — 

 namely, a break. The reader may ask, how comes 

 it the dealer he was purchased from had not done 

 this ? Probably he had ; but if he found his custo- 

 mer fancied him as a hunter, or a horse to make one, 

 depend on it he was far too knowing to let his pur- 

 chaser know he had done so ; or, if asked if he had 

 put him in harness, and he had not, his answer 

 would probably be, ** I, of course, intended to do so, 

 but I had no occasion, as I found a f — 1 to buy him 

 without" — honest, but not flattering. 



]S"ow, any man with the slightest knowledge of 

 horses must be aware that the ver)^ action that would 

 make a horse particularly desirable for harness, is 

 precisely such as to quite disqualify him for a hunter. 

 I had, for instance, as one of my very early posses- 

 sions in the horse way, the race-horse Vagabond ; he 

 had not only remarkably high action for a thorough- 

 bred horse, but for any horse ; nor did even training 

 lower it, as might fairly have been supposed it would. 



