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CHAPTER I. 

 Horse Buying and Horse Trying 



WITH our first rocking-horse usually comes 

 the wish to own a real one; and by the 

 average youth and man the day when he can set up 

 his own equipage is eagerly longed for, marking as it 

 does for him his first foothold upon the pavements 

 of " Easy Street " ; his first visible token to the 

 world that he is prospering. If wisely reared he will 

 have been by experience, or at least by precept, 

 prepared for the taking of this important step ; but 

 if the opportunities for practice have been scanty, or 

 lacking entirely, he will perforce betake himself to 

 friendly council before the matter of ways and means 



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