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find a purchaser at all; for such persons, for their 

 own use, would not have such a bargain as a gift ; 

 and the generality would not take the trouble 

 of huckstering for profit; those that would, and 

 in fact do this, are as wide awake as any dealer 

 to the difficulty of selling such nags : they would 

 be much more likely to buy a regular screw that 

 pulled his knee up to his throat latch. As to the 

 intent with which they often do purchase such 

 flatcatchers, I only say " touch not the Lord's 

 anointed." 



Having made the reader aware of the diffi- 

 culties he will in a general way get into by pur- 

 chasing horses with low, or rather without high, 

 action, we will now get forward by going on the 

 other tack. 



In what I have said relative to high and low 

 action, I have not in any way commended the 

 one or reprobated the other. I have only alluded 

 to usual consequences in point of trouble, time, 

 and money that will occur by the purchase : to 

 exemplify which I will for a moment allude to 

 the purchasing a carriage. I trust it Avill be al- 

 lowed by most persons that a curricle is in itself 

 a most gentlemanly carriage, one pleasant to ride 

 in, and, if well hung, one that follows horses easily 

 and smoothly : we will say I order a curricle 

 and a phaeton to be made, and give a hundred 

 and twenty for each. I wish in a month to sell 



