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waste of money. "Why, it will be said, docs not the 

 master ask some one who knows how things should 

 be done ? Simply for this reason — he thinks all is 

 done that should be, and few people will tell him 

 the reverse. 



Thus, if taken as it is intended, this Book acts the 

 part that few friends will be found honest enough to 

 do ; it shrinks not from the somewhat unpleasant 

 task of telling many persons that they really know 

 nothing about what they consider they are doing as 

 well as it can be done ; and if they will only take the 

 Author's intentions as they are meant, they will find 

 that if he describes their doings in a somewhat deri- 

 sive way, he mentions them in a way that will at 

 once show that they are indebted to their own want 

 of knowledge of such matters, that they do them as 

 they do, and that they must do them at considerable 

 loss. He has in no way misled his readers by pre- 

 tending to teach them how to make money ; there are 

 many persons whose time and avocations will not per- 

 mit them to do so, and whose knowledge of horses is 

 far too confined even had they time and opportunity ; 



