IN SEARCH OP A HORSE. 59 



'' I see nothing ; has he been down ?" 



" Down, indeed ! no, I think I can ride better 

 than that ; but he has a scar as long as mj arm." 



" Then jou need not have been so long finding it 

 out. Did you expect for thirty guineas to buy such 

 a horse as that without a blemish ?" 



"Blemish ! but I'll take the law of you, you rascal 

 you may depend upon it. My first cousin is an 

 attorney, and he will bring the action for love. I'll 

 make you smart for it yet." 



My first cousin, the attorney, if an honest man, 

 tells him he is a fool for his pains ; and if a rogue, 

 makes him pay a hundred pounds to learn that a 

 blemish is no unsoundness ! 



I have known a yet more unlucky fate; or at least 

 more mortifying. A friend of mine called on me one 

 day in a very sulky mood : he had " been nicely trick- 

 ed ; choused out of fifty pounds by a swindling knave, 

 and got nothing but a lame horse for his money." 



" Then why not return him ?" 



" Oh ! the dealer swears he was sound when I took 

 him away yesterday, and what's the use of going to 

 law with those fellows ? they will swear black's white." 



•' Very true ; but let me have a look at him : 

 where does he stand ?" * 



