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How To Pick Out A Good Hoss

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Day
10
Month
November
Year
1871
Copyright
Public Domain
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Sltllíiflipnl.rgiis First. Let the color be a Borrel, a roan, a red, n gray, a white, a black, a blue, a green, a chestnat, a brown, a dapple, a . spotted,a crcam, abuckskin, or sum other good color. Second. Look well tit hiz oyes ; see that he haz got a pupil in hiz eyes, and not too hirge a onc neither ; hosses with too large pupils ín their cycs are ncar sighted, kant seo oats, and hav to wear goggles, and green goggles nuike him look tu rauch like a trak! pedler. Third. Pnt yuro hand on hiz brcast (this iz ullowablo in tho caseov a quadrupd) ; see if hiz harte kan beat 70; squeezc hiz fore legs tu see if he iz well muscled ; lift up hiz beforc feet and see if thare iz enny frogs in thcin - froga keep a hoss's feet cool and sweet, just as they do a wcll Or a spring ov water. Four. Look well to hizshoes; sec whai number he wears - number eight iz aboul ríght. . Five. Run yuré hand along tho dividing ridge ov hiz wholo boddy, from tho top ov hiz Tvithers tu the oommenoemeni ov hiz tail (or dorsul vertebra), and pinch him as you go along, tu seo if he knows how t-u kick. Six. Look on hiz hind legs for some upavins, kurbs, windgalls, ringbones, skratches, quittors, thrush, grease-hivis, thoroughpins, spring-halt, qunrter-krackers; see if he haz got a whhi-bone ; look for some pin-hips ; hunt for straini in the back tendons, lot-downs, and capped liooks. Seveii. Investígate hiz tecth ; seo if he aín't fourteen years oíd last May, with teeth filed down, and a six year-old black mark burncd intu the top ov them with a hot iron. Eight. Smell ov hiz bteat.h tu see if hn laint got f-iun glanders; look just back ov hiz tor signs ov pole-evil ; pinch him on the top of hiz wíthera fór a tistuLa, and look eharp at both shoulders for a sweeney. Nine. Honk him tu a waggon that rattles, drive liini up to an Irishman and his wheolbarrow, nicet a rag merchant with cow-bells strung across the top ov hiz cart, let an express train pass him at forty-five miles tu the hour; whon he iz swetty heave a bnffalo robe over him tu keep oph the cold, ride him with an umbrel highsted, and learn hiz opinyun ov these things. Ten. Prospekt hiz wind, sarch diligently for the heaves, ask if he iz a roarer, and don't be afraid to fiud out if he iz a whütler. Eleven. Be sure that he aint a kribbitcr, aint balky, aint a weaver, and dou't pull at the halter. Theze nru a few simple things tu be looked at in buying a (joml J'nmily hoss ; thare iz a grate menny other things tu bc looked at (ut yare leizure) after you have bought him. Good horses are skarce, and good men, that deal in any kind ov hosses, are skarsi'r. Ask a man all about his wife, and hc may teil jou; examino him ohiss inrit Suii'lay school teiichor, and fiud him all on the square; send him tu the New York Legislatura, and rcjoice that moncy won't buy him ; lend him seven hundred dollars in the highway without a witness or ncte ; even swap dorgs with him with perfect impunity ; Imt when you buy ' goodfamtly hoss ov him, young, sound and trow, watch the man ciusí, and make ctp yun; mind besides that you wil! have to ask the Lord to forgive him. " An honttt man iz (he noblcut work ov God." This famous saying waz written, in great anguish of hcart, by t#io late Alexander Pope, just after buyiug a good family hoss.

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