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required to give a warranty with the horse when 

 sold, and no veterinary surgeon could pass such a 

 horse as sound. This horse is legally unsound. 



The same person, or any other, sells a hunter 

 to a gentleman or friend, and warrants him. On 

 cutting down the foot a little lower than usual, 

 we w^ill say there are two corns found, or some- 

 thing that resembles them : perhaps, after all, only 

 a superficial extravasation, from the shoes having 

 borne too hard on the heels ; the horse has not 

 been tender on them, goes firm and sound, and 

 has good feet. This horse I should consider 

 morally, though not legally, sound, and ought not, 

 if a desirable purchase, to be returned. The seller 

 has made good his word and intention ; he has 

 sold a hunter or horse that comes up to his de- 

 scription of him, namely, one likely to answer the 

 purpose of the purchaser ; yet hundreds would re- 

 turn such a horse, and if any demur was made by 

 the seller, would go to law as malevolently as if 

 they had been robbed by a professed scoundreL 



Personally, I would never object to give a war- 

 ranty of a horse to any man whom I knew to be 

 (first of course) an honourable one, a man of con- 

 sistency, that is, one who, in common parlance, 

 knows his own mind (which by the by thousands 

 do not, so far as horse affairs go), a good judge, 

 and one who knows how to manage his horse 

 when he has got him, both in the stable and out. 



