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and go well ; that is enough for hun : for he Avill 

 take care that the same means are used when he offers 

 liim for sale. In some elucidation of this, we will see 

 how difll'rently the gentleman and the dealer act. 

 Supposing each going to see a horse Avith the view of 

 purchasing him : the first thing the gentleman re- 

 (juests is, that he may not be gingered, that no whip 

 may be used, that he may be allowed to stand as he 

 likes, and then go as he likes (this is supposing the 

 gentleman knows what he is about) : he is quite right, 

 for this is the way he will be treated while in his 

 possession, and this is the way in which he Avill be 

 allowed to go. If he goes handsomely, cheerfully, 

 and well when thus left to liimself, he is in all pro- 

 bability naturally a good goer, a free and light-hearted 

 horse. Now, let the dealer go to look at a horse in a 

 gentleman's stable, he will most likely be shown by 

 the groom in the same quiet way I have described : 

 to this the dealer has no objection, but he will see a 

 little more of him before he buys him : he then makes 

 a positive agreement as to the price he is to have him 

 for, if he buys him : this done, he tells his own man, 

 who generally accompanies him on such occasions, to 

 take hold of his head, gives him a " corn," in other 

 words a bit of ginger, puts him against a wall, gives 

 him a few strokes of the whip to waken him a bit, 

 tells his man to " run on," rattles his whip-handle in 

 the crown of his hat, and then sees how the horse 

 will look when he shows him. The dealer is as risfht 

 as the gentleman. They each w^ish to see the horse 

 in the way in which he is to answer their different 

 purposes, and the purpose for which each buys him. 

 The difference, however, between his answering the 

 purpose of the two buyers is very great. If he does 



