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man's dust if I want it, mortifies and worries me. 

 Other persons more wise would not feel thus; 

 therefore it would really be quite consistent in me, 

 if I purchased for another person, or advised him 

 to purchase, a horse that I would not accept as 

 a gift. I might, and most certainly should, as I 

 have often done, purchase one that in turn the 

 same man would not accept on the same terms ; 

 yet both might be well suited in purchasing the 

 respective horses. 



I can, however, give a better reason for my dis- 

 like to thick- winded horses. Imperfection in the 

 wind causes considerable debility; debility, as a 

 matter of course, causes an animal under its in- 

 fluence to feel the effects of exertion more readily 

 than one of a sound and firm constitution ; thus, 

 such an animal has not only his infirmity of wind 

 to contend against, but comparative infirmity of 

 constitution also. The asthmatic man becomes 

 shortly distressed by exertion, supposing him 

 to be as strong as he may ; the sick and weak 

 one becomes also distressed by exertion. What, 

 then, must the man feel who is both asthmatic and 

 weak ? I do not know whether, in the human 

 frame, the one is the sure accompaniment to the 

 other; but in horses I am quite satisfied that more 

 or less it is so. 



The best advice I could give a person about to 

 buy a thick- winded horse is this — try him. In 



