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such a sale become necessary, if the horse is for 

 any road purpose, I give, on a broad scale, the 

 plain and direct advice, huy no horse with low ac- 

 tion ; for as fashion prevails in these days, such a 

 horse will certainly occasion great loss of time, 

 an infinite degree of trouble, and most probably 

 considerable loss of money, before he can be dis- 

 posed of. 



A person may flatter himself, and many per- 

 sons do thus err: that if they buy a horse with 

 bad, or we will say unfashionable, action for fifty 

 that would be worth a hundred and fifty if it was 

 the reverse, they need not anticipate loss in the 

 resale : that they may not form such an anti- 

 cipation is very likely ; and certainly they need 

 not if they do not wish to do so ; but I assure 

 them that in nine cases in ten loss icill be the con- 

 sequence of such transactions. 



We may purchase many horses and many other 

 things with certain imperfections, that at a certain 

 price are a safe and probably good speculation ; 

 but any thing that is all but unsaleable is dear at 

 almost any price. It matters little for the pur- 

 pose of sale, whether the drawback be of serious 

 consequence or not, if people fancy it is so. K 

 no gentleman would buy a dark chestnut, the 

 Switcher would probably have found his way 

 to a green-grocer's cart, instead of snatching the 

 laurels from some of the best horses in Enirland 



