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out to be greater than the purchaser expected, 

 unless it can be proved that the seller took some 

 means to hide its real nature, as he might, and 

 sometimes does, by making the horse tender on 

 the sound foot. 



With regard to vice, I would say a horse is 

 not free from it, when he has any thing in his 

 temper or habits that makes him more difficult 

 to manage, either in the stable or at work, than 

 he would be without it: and consequently, I 

 consider a horse warranted free from vice, 

 returnable, if he turn out a kicker, biter, rearer, 

 dangerous to shoe or clean, guilty of shying, run- 

 ning away, or of being dangerously or annoyingly 

 restive in any way. It is not always easy, how- 

 ever, to return a horse for any of these faults, 

 for, even though he may have been warranted 

 free from them, it is very difficult, often impossi- 

 ble, to prove that he possessed them before he 

 changed masters. 



The purchaser, after selecting an animal, 

 whose height, form, age, and action, are most 

 suitably adapted for the work, will next proceed 

 to examine him for diseases that do, or are 

 likely to, make him less serviceable. 



This scrutinizing process will be much sooner, 



