CHAPTER IV 



After all that has been said in my former chap- 

 ter, it can scarcely be necessary to caution the 

 reader, that if he is treating with men of whose 

 respectability he is not well assured by previous 

 information, or general repute, he must attentively 

 listen to every syllable that is said by dealer, gentle- 

 man, or groom, and believe nothing. 



I was one day examining a horse that pleased me 

 much ; but I perceived a blemish over the eye : the 

 hair was slightly turned, and on raising it with my 

 finger I found a scar. 



" It is of no consequence. Sir ; a rascal that I dis- 

 charged last week, struck him over the head with a 

 fork." 



" It happened last week, Mr. Brown ?" 



"Yesterday was a week. Sir." 



" What provoked the man ?" 



