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A man of this sort will neither have recourse to 

 any unhandsome practices, or give unnecessary 

 trouble. The rogue will do the first, the man who 

 is not a judge of the animal he buys w^U be all 

 but sure to do the latter. 



Every body wdll, I know, agree with me as to 

 the possibility of a dealer in horses playing an 

 unfair part with a horse that has been warranted 

 sound to him ; in fact, almost every one not con- 

 versant with horse affairs w^ll not only think 

 it possible or probable that he might, but would, 

 from prejudice, feel assured he would do so ; for 

 such persons hold rascality and dealers in horses 

 as synonymous. 



Without attempting to remove the prejudice 

 of such persons against dealers, or having any in- 

 terest in the matter, not being, or ever having 

 been, a dealer myself, I must, as a set-ofF against 

 the tricks of such men, beg to assure my readers 

 that, though the instances are of course much more 

 rare, I have knowm as positively rascally tricks 

 played by men holding the rank of gentlemen as 

 any dealer could perpetrate. 



I will mention one which, " cum multis aliis," 

 came to my personal knowledge. A person 

 moving in the sphere, and in ordinary matters 

 acting up to the part, of a gentleman had pur- 

 chased a horse of a dealer ; not being a good 

 judge, he found in a day or two the horse was 



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