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6. How can I keep a horse cheap?

7. What is my best way to sell a bad horse, if I don't like him?

These are a few of the trifling questions I shall beg leave to trouble you with from time to time: and as it will be extremely easy, and, I dare say, agreeable to you to answer them, I shall make no apology but with my assurance that I am, Sir,

Your devoted and very humble Servant,

.

G. Gambado, Esq.

This fellow, with his assurance, appeared to be such a puppy, I could not answer him for some months; indeed his queries rather posed me; but his fees came in fast, and I was fain to solve them as well as I could.

The first I left to his better judgment, only suggesting that the ear of the horse and the pommel of the saddle were all