200 HINTS TO HOKSE:yrEN ; oe, 



hundred guineas' -worth in his stable, while the truth 

 was, about two was the maximum price of the four, 

 who were all of them more or less faulty ; they were, 

 in short, a set of fine old screws, that carried him 

 Avell, and which, from want of that universal know- 

 ledge of horses which enables one who has it to value 

 them for what they are really worth, deceiving him- 

 self most grossly as regards their value, it would 

 have been really an act of cruelty to undeceive him. 

 A man thus circumstanced, has but one chance with 

 his horses, (and even this would be no chance at all, 

 with a man who purchased horses with an eye to 

 making money by them) ; being known and seen as 

 a good rider, his horses will sell to one who does not 

 possess such advantages ; here he occasionally gets a 

 pull, and country gentlemen are fond of buying a 

 horse they have seen carrying their friend with ease 

 and comfort ; his soundness is a thing not doubted 

 by buyer or seller, they only consider him the reverse 

 when he is forced to be stopped in his work ; and 

 even then, if it is considered a temporary thing, the 

 horse returns to the field with his character for 



