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a very experienced judge, might consider a horse as 

 not sound — in fact, unsound — it does not follow 

 that he is (as some persons may suppose such a 

 horse to be) really lame ; he may be a very service- 

 able animal, but not, professionally speaking, sound. 



Now, supposing I could bring any person or 

 number of persons to believe the fact, that a man 

 conversant with horses might sell, as a sound 

 horse, one that might, on proper inspection, be 

 returned as unsound, all I could say or write — all 

 that men whose judgment is ten times better than 

 mine could say or write — would never convince 

 the majority of persons that a dealer could in- 

 nocently do the same thing. If his judgment 

 errs, and leads him into error as to the sound- 

 ness of his horse, it is set down, not as wilful and 

 corrupt perjury as to oath, but most undoubtedly 

 as to his word and honesty. 



It certainly is a part of a dealer's business to 

 make himself a good judge of the soundness of the 

 animal in which he deals; and good judges in 

 this matter many (but by no means all) of them 

 are : but the part of their trade in which they 

 are by far the most perfect is the looks, action, 

 and fitness of the animal for the different descrip- 

 tion of customers each dealer has to please ; and 

 beyond this, the proper price that they can ju- 

 diciously give for each horse so as to ensure profit 

 on his sale. I have seen dealers buy the same 



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