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is^ that persons who should be the last to pur- 

 chase such animals, are the first who would be 

 disposed to do so. Tell such persons that a horse 

 w^as subject to fits of frenzy, they would as soon 

 purchase a Bengal tiger: now, the frightened 

 horse is frenzied for the time being ; therefore, 

 as the nervous horse is as likely to be frightened 

 as the other is to have a fit come on, one is as 

 much to be avoided as the other, by those who 

 are nervous themselves ; to such persons it is a 

 failing in a horse that no qualifications can make 

 amends for. Let him be condemned, and, I 

 would also recommend, without a trial. 



JIBBING HORSES. 



This habit is, in most cases, the effect of in- 

 judicious treatment on being first broke to har- 

 ness : but with the cause we have nothing here 

 to do ; our business is only whether such a horse 

 may with safety be purchased. 



The inconvenience of such varies so much from 

 circumstances, that, alluding to the same animal, 

 I would recommend one man to buy him, and 

 another not to accept him as a present. 



I am not supposing a horse to be so regular a 

 jibber that, with a fair carriage as to weight be- 

 hind him, he will on a level road stop every ten 



