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tliem ofF. But he made me a recompence, 

 as follows. One Saturday night late, wft 

 put a blind horse out into the pasture ad- 

 joining to the house : in the morning he 

 was gone. We made every search and in- 

 quiry about the place for the horse : but 

 he was not to be found. At last this man 

 told me he had heard of him, — that two of 

 the wheel-barrow men, having run away 

 from Baltimore, had ridden my horse ; 

 and they were taken up, he told me, at or 

 near General Ridgely's works ; and the 

 horse was turned loose on a common there. 

 Not doubting the truth of this information, 

 I rode to t-he place, about fourteea 

 miles off, in quest of my blind horse : 

 but I could not hear a word of such 

 a horse : and the man's house being in 

 my way home, I called to tell him my 

 story. I discovered a smile in his 

 countenance, and found he was making 

 fun of me. I began to think of the pigs. 

 I rode away, not without suspecting 



that he knew wl;iere the horse was* Some 



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