30 CONFESSIONS OF A HOKSE DEALER. 



CHAPTER III. 



MAKING UP HORSES. BI8HOPING. A METHUSELAH. THE 



AGE OF HORSES. MARKING THE TEETH. PUFFING THE 



GLIMS. GYPPING. THE FIG. AN IMPUDENT TRICK. 



JERUSALEM LAMENTED. THE CHUCK-BACKED HORSE. 



THE DEAL. THE PIPER AND THE ROARER. THE CLEVER 



GttOOM. A FOOL AND HIS MONEY. 



IT requires an experienced coper of the very first water 

 to make up an aged horse to imitate a young one, to make 

 a colt appear at the age of maturity, and thereby enhance 

 their marketable value. 



There are thousands who ride and drive horses, more 

 or less, all their lives, who never can tell the age of a 

 horse by examining his teeth : and many experienced 

 men are at fault after the horse has attained the age of 

 eight years, more especially if he has been cleverly 

 "bishoped," and his form still retains the appearance of 

 vigour, which is the case with many horses until a great 

 age. But this, of course, depends entirely upon the 

 amount of labour and the treatment they may have 

 undergone. Every horse-coper makes a point of pur- 

 chasing a screw which is afflicted with some particular 



