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"Yes, I am," says the victim. 



" Well, a friend of mine has one to sell," says coper. 



" Where is it ?" enquires his victim. 



" At work, so-and-so, if you don't mind walking with 

 me as far." 



This is just the thing required, for no man likes to 

 buy a harness horse from a stranger unless he first sees 

 him in harness. The whole affair looking so genuine 

 and straightforward, a suspicion of foul play is never 

 entertained. The victim is introduced to the confede- 

 rate, and the horse is sold, and so is the customer, who 

 belongs to that grade in society who can ill afford to 

 lose their money. 



The glandered horse is rarely sold for more than 20 : 

 the general price being under 10. For as this malady 

 seldom appears but as a winding up of many other 

 minor afflictions, he is considered, exclusive of glanders, 

 considerably below the mark for a gentleman, or even 

 well-to-do tradesman. I have, nevertheless, in the 

 course of my experience seen many first-class horses 

 afflicted with this disease ; this has, in most cases, been 

 contracted by contagion, but being in the hands of those 

 .who can afford to lose them, they are soon destroyed. 



No man, having a shadow of a claim to respectability, 

 will prolong the life of a horse after being thoroughly 

 satisfied of his having contracted this fearful disease. 

 For if a glandered horse is once introduced into a stable, 

 almost every horse in that stable will, sooner or later, 

 become infected and die. 



