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Title: Riding and driving for women
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Beach, Belle
Subjects: Horses Horsemanship Driving of horse-drawn vehicles
Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's sons
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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ted, there is nothingin which she can be so easily deceived as in a horse.Therefore, I strongly advise the novice to go alwaysto a dealer of good standing, state frankly what sheis looking for, how much she is willing to pay, andput herself in his hands without affecting knowledgewhich she lacks. When you go to a dealer of standingyou may be confident that having acquired a highreputation he will maintain it, and will not sell youa horse other than he represents it. If you go to agyp dealer you must keep your eyes open and relyon a veterinary of your own selection, coupled withthe advice of some friend who has real knowledge ofhorses; otherwise you are putting yourself at themercy of the kind of man who has given horse-dealersat large the unfair reputation in which they are heldby the public. Certainly the novice should not expect to getsomething for nothing, and I would strongly ad-vise the buyer to make up her mind that it is bettereconomy in the long run to pay a good price for 182
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