20 THE STUD. 



horse as sound that I have rejected as unsound, 

 having had opportunity of more minute and 

 lengthened examination than they had; and no 

 wonder, when we consider the little time that a 

 dealer in a fair has to examine his purchases. It 

 would really seem, by the way in which persons 

 not much acquainted with horses or dealers con- 

 demn the latter pell mell, in any case of their sell- 

 ing an unsound horse, that they thought dealers 

 must be infallible in their judgment, and never 

 get such an animal without knowing it, when, 

 in fact, there are no men in the world so likely to 

 get unsound horses if their quickness of eye and 

 experience did not save them. 



Having said thus much of the propriety of 

 asking for a warranty in purchasing a horse, the 

 mistakes made in supposing the animal can stand 

 such test, and the objections of many persons to 

 giving one, let us now consider what is the intent 

 and meanino^ of 



WARRANTIXG A HORSE SOUND. 



The warranting any thing — if I am right in 

 my understanding of the term, and its intent is 

 simple enough, and easily defined — is an en- 

 gagement that, if the article does not prove to be 

 such as the seller represented it to be, it shall be 

 taken back. and the cost price refunded. This any 



