DEALS IN HORSE-FLESH.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 445, 2 January 1909, Page 2

DEALS IN HORSE-FLESH.

From time immemorial nothing; has pleased a horse - dealer more* than to hear of a, good “ sell ’" ' being effected on those men who know all about a horse, says the ’ Woodville Examiner. It will be remembered by many that David Hamm chuckled for some days | after he had sold a jibbing horse ter * a “particular friend” of his, and 1 he thought more of that deal than i .tot- any Other transaction he* iBS3 r ever made. Two smart sales were brought under our notice the other day, and both were effected by local horse-dealers. An employer!, of horses had resolved on getting rid of a horse that was little or no use to him, and a dealer got him for £3. His new owner touched , him up a bit, and offered him tor sale at the yards, when he was repurchased by his original owner for £2l. Some weeks ago a local farmer wanted a horse for' his spring - cart, and approached a dealer, who happened to have ian animal that would suit, but: the price asked didn’t. There was a difference of £3, the dealer wanting and’the farmer offering £ls. Rather than lose the chance « of the sale, the dealer dropped ~ price to 10s, but still the j farmer was obdurate—he value ot a horse when he Well, the deal did not and the dealer sent the Dannevirke yards the week, when be brought the Woodville farmer was chaser 1 / Curtain.'" XT. w:n: Tttr_n