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cannot merit talent, he may merit appearance, and by that, 

 cause the public to think more of him. To further acquaint 

 our readers, and caution them against placing any value on 

 certificates obtained from quacks and such class of men, 

 we shall here give a case that took place in Brooklyn, New 

 York. A bay mare seven years old was sold to a butcher 

 for $250.00, by a sale stable keeper, and warranted sound, 

 kind, and true in all harness. The butcher took him right 

 away to a man (calling himself a veterinary surgeon, and 

 doing a first-class business, driving a dashing team), for 

 examining. This quack pronounced the mare unsound, and 

 obtained $5.00. On the sale stable keeper hearing this, 

 he started off to the man who examined the mare, and ask- 

 ed him how could he do such a thing, as it will injure 

 him ? to pass the mare as sound and he will give him 

 $20.00. The quack said, as an excuse, I will examine her 

 again, which he did, and passed her as sound ; this I can 

 vouch for, having heard it from the sale stable keeper, as 

 well as from the butcher; and I was shown the mare some 

 time afterwards, and found that she was unsound, having a 

 spavin of the off leg, and lame. This will inform our read- 

 ers of the value of certificates obtained from such class of 

 men. 



I shall make a few remarks regarding the soundness and 

 unsouudness in cases of pulmonary disease, as cases are 

 recorded of horses being sold as sound, and in a day or 

 two the animal showed signs of pneumonia or pleurisy, 

 and the animal died within eight or ten days from the date 

 of purchase. The purchaser, in such a case, contends that 

 the horse must have been diseased at the time of purchase, 

 and not sound, as represented on the warranty ; but in 

 such an opinion the purchaser is greatly mistaken, as a 

 horse might be sound on the day of sale, but the removal 



