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five, equal to a man of seventy ; at thirty, to one 

 of eighty ; and at thirty-five, equal to a man of 

 ninety. Horses at twenty-five and thirty years of 

 age are as common as blackberries, and there are 

 thousands of such animals working in our cities. 

 It has been placed on record that a horse has lived 

 to sixty or sixty-five years, but instances of this 

 kind, must indeed be rare. 



Tricks of Dealers. 



The horse dealer has attained a notoriety second 

 to none in the matter of corrupt practices, but the 

 writer has sufficient experience to teach him that 

 many other classes of dealers are quite as capable 

 of carrying on shady transactions as the much- 

 abused horse dealer. That there are black sheep 

 in every fold goes without dispute, but there are 

 horse dealers who value their honour as much as 

 any men. In all ordinary dealings some loose 

 statements will be indulged in, if success is to 

 attend the business man ; and the horse dealer, 

 like every other man, is anxious to make the 

 most of his wares. But he is at a disadvantage. 

 His purchases being of animate, and not inanimate, 

 objects, he has consequently to put up with an 

 occasional death in his stud, or with depreciation 



