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will, should you wish to part with him, bring 

 back no more, and most likely less, than you 

 gave for him. Most men are better buyers than 

 they are sellers, and my own experience is, that 

 next to buying a good horse, the most difficult 

 thing in the world is to sell him. The fact is that 

 while there is always a first-rate market for horses 

 of the best kind, whether for saddle or harness 

 work, for the medium animal there is an uncertain 

 demand. 



But it is with such horses that we have to be 

 content, and as we are seeking horses for pleasure 

 or business, and not for profit, it is comfortable to 

 remember that, as in the case of the mare noted 

 above, there are many treasures of courage, speed, 

 and endurance hidden among the mass of ordinary 

 working horses. 



As I look back I am rather surprised to find 

 how few bad horses I have had, considering that 

 I have only once or twice paid any thing like a 

 high price for them. Only two were wholly bad 

 in the sense of being useless. With most horses 

 one can obtain some pleasure and a good deal of 

 work. 



But the natural question is : ** How am I to find 

 the animal I want } I am no judge." Now, I 

 would remind the reader here of the old story of 

 the sergeant marching reservists into camp. "Now, 

 men, pull yourselves together ; you are not nearly 

 so drunk as you think you are." So I would say 



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