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recuperative treatment was sufficient to make them re- 

 frain from this common error, in using a little deception 

 in the sale of their animals; but they should remember 

 that for every dollar plained in this way (to the pocket), 

 there are ten lost to the reputation, and nine times out of 

 ten where this course is pursued, for any considerable 

 length of time, it brings both to bankruptcy, or the 

 proprietor is lost to true happiness. 



And then some are quite apt to deceive themselves by 

 not exercising their better judgment, or relying to much 

 on what they may have heard some one say, or having 

 formed too favorable an opinion before hand, for all 

 these things have a powerful influence on the minds and 

 judgment of most men at such times, in fact so much 

 that they can not tell afterwards whether the questions 

 they asked were answered, or some they did not ask; for 

 if they see one or two points in a horse that pleases them, 

 it becomes an easy task for the jockey to divert their at- 

 tention from all the rest, however bad they may be. 

 Therefore, to become a successful purchaser, we must 

 learn something of human nature, as well as that of 

 the horse. 



In the first place, if you wish to purchase a horse, you 

 should be calm and deliberate, considering well the use 

 you are to make of the animal you are about to buy, and 

 then select one that is well adapted to your purpose, 

 remembering that the size, shape and motion of the ear, 

 wilh the expression of the eye, is an index to the dis- 

 position and temper within, as much as the legs (which 

 should be free from all blemishes whatever), and the 



