Buying a Horse
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William Dean Howells
William Dean Howells was a realist novelist, literary critic, and playwright, nicknamed "The Dean of American Letters". He was particularly known for his tenure as editor of The Atlantic Monthly, as well as for his own prolific writings.
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Title: Buying a Horse
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BUYING A HORSE
BY William Dean Howells
BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge
1916
COPYRIGHT, 1879
BY HOUGHTON, OSGOOD & CO.
COPYRIGHT, 1916
BY HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
BUYING A HORSE
If one has money enough, there seems no reason why one should not go and buy such a horse as he wants. This is the commonly accepted theory, on which the whole commerce in horses is founded, and on which my friend proceeded.
He was about removing from Charlesbridge, where he had lived many happy years without a horse, farther into the country, where there were charming drives and inconvenient distances, and where a horse would be very desirable, if not quite necessary. But as a horse seemed at first an extravagant if not sinful desire, he began by talking vaguely round, and rather hinting than declaring that he thought somewhat of buying. The professor to whom he first intimated his purpose flung himself from his horse's back to the grassy border of the sidewalk where my friend stood, and said he would give him a few points. "In the first place don't buy a horse that shows much daylight under him, unless you buy a horse-doctor with him; get a short-legged horse; and he ought to be short and thick in the barrel,—or words to that effect.
Don't get a horse with a narrow forehead: there are horse-fools as well as the other kind, and you want a horse with room for brains. And look out that he's all right forward."
What's that?
asked my friend, hearing this phrase for the first time.
That he isn't tender in his fore-feet,—that the hoof isn't contracted,
said the professor, pointing out the well-planted foot of his own animal.
What ought I to pay for a horse?
pursued my friend, struggling to fix the points given by the professor in a mind hitherto unused to points of the kind.
Well, horses are cheap, now; and you ought to get a fair family horse—You want a family horse?
Yes.
Something you can ride and drive both? Something your children can drive?
Yes, yes.
"Well, you ought to get such a horse