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matter than they do themselves, which it might be 

 difficult to do ; for riding a horse, or rather sitting on 

 one that perfectly understands his business, is quite 

 a different thing from riding one that knows little 

 or nothing about it ; but it becomes a matter of 

 doubt whether such a person will purchase a horse 

 understanding a business that his master really does 

 not : but we will suppose him to have done so ; he 

 has purchased him at his full value ; what is to make 

 him worth more ? certainly not the way in which he 

 is ridden, for this, though good, will in no way im- 

 prove him who has probably been ridden better, and 

 which has brought him to the state in which his 

 present owner purchased him ; consequently, as ofteji 

 as he sells he loses, instead of making money, and 

 probably he has neither time nor opportunity to ac- 

 quire that knowledge by which he can when he sells, 

 and he will find it too late in life to learn it. He 

 probably hunts twice a week at most, never sees his 

 horse from one hunting day to another, his inter- 

 mediate time is occupied by matters of greater im- 

 portance to him than making or losing money by his 



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