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This is better advice than giving him yards of 

 quotations from veterinary text-books on the subject 

 of spHnts, ring-bones, spavins, etc., etc., to consider. 

 There is time enough for this when he goes, as he 

 ought, through the veterinary course at Aldershot. 

 It will, however, do him no harm to study the 

 pictures and diagrams published by Bailey and 

 Woods of Cirencester, showing the many ailments 

 the horse is subject to, with their positions, and 

 endeavour to identify these on the live animal as 

 examples are met with. 



If the ingenuous youth is too proud, or rather has 

 not sufficient sense — for only fools are too proud to 

 ask questions about things they do not know — to 

 ask a friend's advice, let him at any rate go to a 

 respectable dealer, and above all avoid being caught 

 by such chaff as this — 



" Bargain. — Superb hunter, sold only owing to 

 accident to owner." " Perfection," by " Prize 

 Winner " out of " Jump-over-the-moon." '* Chestnut 

 gelding, beautiful, handsome, free-stepping horse. 

 Most brilliant hunter, etc., etc. Apply to Lord 

 Scattercashe's coachman, Beanem Mews, W." 



A young bird in a scientific corps at this station 

 (Aldershot) was caught with a very similar bait a 

 few months ago. He wanted a horse, he saw an 

 advertisement, he said nothing to anybody, but got 

 a day's leave and went and bought the horse, giving 

 nearly ^loo. The horse arrives. Next day, 

 " Downey bird " goes to ride him. Horse won't 

 leave stable yard, rears. Rough-rider brought in, 



