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How To Buy A Horse

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Parent Issue
Day
31
Month
August
Year
1882
Copyright
Public Domain
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-Au oíd you want to buy a horse, don'tbelieveyonr own brother. Takeno inan's word for it. Your eyc is your inarket. D.m't buya liorso 111 harneas. Unhitch him and take ovcry thingoffbnthishalteiyindleadhimaround. Il'he has a coru, or is stift", or bas any other failing, you can sec it. Let him go by hiraself a littie ways, and if ho stavcs right into anything yon may knovv lio is stoue blind. No matter how olear and bright his eycs are, he cau't see any more than a bat. Back him up, too. Somehorsesshow their weakness or triitks in that way wlien they don't in any other. But, be aa .smart as you can, you'll get caught aometime. Even au expert gets stnek. A borsc may look ever so nice, and go a mile a minute, and yet have lits, for instance. There isn't a Hve man could teil it till something happens. Or he may have a weak back. Give him the whip and off he goes lor a mile or o, then, all of a sudden, he sits down in Lno rond. Alter a rest lic gets up and starts again, but lic soon sitsdowu for good, and nothiug but a derrick could raise him." One day is worth three to him who does everything in order.

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Ann Arbor Democrat