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them off. But he made me a recOmpence, 

 as follows. One Saturday night late, we 

 put a blind horse out into the pasture ad- 

 joining to the house : in the morning he 

 was gone. We made every seatch 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 j 

 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 the place, about fourteen 

 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 where the horse was. Some 



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