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don't want them good, nor do we want park 

 horses so either. 



I have now carried my intent out as far as I 

 proposed to myself, by having alluded to most of 

 those real or fancied imperfections of horses that 

 might induce my reader, as thousands of others 

 daily do, to reject horses from first appearances, 

 without properly investigating the amount of ob- 

 jection any imperfection may produce, or without 

 consulting others on the subject. May I hope that 

 what I have written may induce the purchaser to, 

 at least, give the imperfect horse that chance that 

 is accorded to the criminal, namely, the advantage 

 of being brought before a judge, and the fair 

 chance of trial. By doing so, he may depend on 

 it, he will study his own comfort and interest, 

 and will often s^et a valuable animal that an in- 

 considerate rejection would have lost him. 



If the reader wishes to learn the perfections of 

 the horse, many clever works will point them 

 out to him. But let me remind him, that, though 

 works tell him what a perfect horse is, they do 

 not quite tell us where to find him ; as the rogue 

 equivocally said, you may " look to me " for pay- 

 ment ; but I am not aware that looking to a man 

 and being paid are quite the same thing. 



There are other very clever works that bring all 

 the diseases of the horse in array before us ; those 



