CHAPTER XI. 



HOW TO BUY, CONTINUED. 



BUTING CHEAP HORSES. II. <!OLOR, IN RELATION TO VAIitTE. HI. ACTION. > IT. 



FAST-WALKING HORSES. V. WHAT A HORSE SHOULD BE, VI. WHAT CON8TIT0TES 



UNSOUNDNESS. VII. ILLUSTRATION OF FORM AND SYMMETRY. ^VUI. THE BODY AND 



LIMBS. IX. THE BODY AS STANDING FACING YOU. X. FRONT VIEW OF FORE-QUAR- 

 TERS, SHOWING DIFFERENT BAD CONFORMATIONS. XI. THE HIND-QUARTERS. XH. 



THE VIEW FROM BEHIND. XIII. WHAT NOT TO BUY. ^XIV. BUYINGf K)R BLOOD. 



I. Buying Cheap Horses. 



In the preceding chapter on this important subject we have endeavored 

 to show some of the principal points to be considered in buying a horse, 

 especially those relating to the use for which they are intended. There 

 is one rule that will always apply in buying any horse. Never buy him 

 because he is offered at a price evidently far below his worth, that is, 

 except it be from a friend that you can trust, who does not want the 

 horse himself, and wishes to do you a favor. These cases will be found 

 very rare. In every other case rest assured the horse has some danger- 

 ous ^ace, or is permanently unsound. In this\pountry never buy a horse 

 at any price which has any appearance of broken knees by falling. 

 Hunting horses are too rare here for one to have gotten th€ hurt in th« 

 field, and, accidentally, by being put at a barrier beyond his power. 



Reject a horse with any weakness in his eyesight, unless you have use 

 for a blind horse, then buy him at a blind horse's price. A one-eyed 

 horse may do useful, but not elegant work. Never buy a lame horse at 

 ixiy price, until you are assured that the disabiUty is not permanent. 



Foot lameness, except it may be from a slight corn, and consequently 



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