PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION. 



BROTHERLY love and friendly kindness being 

 generally shown in an inverse ratio in the 

 purchase of a horse to what they are in any 

 other transaction, and the loss sustained from 

 the high price being often ruinous and pro- 

 vokingly vexatious, I publish the following 

 pages, in the hope that you, as well as your 

 noble but ill-treated slave, may mutually derive 

 benefit from the contents. 



I have never fallen in with any little pamph- 

 let entirely divested of technical language, such 

 as a tyro would like from its simplicity, giving 

 plain and succinct directions how to purchase 

 a horse for a racer, charger, and hunter, toge- 

 ther with an easy account of putting him into 

 condition, &c., and showing how far he might 



