CHAPTER XVI. 



Next to buying a good horse, there are few things 

 more difficult than buying good law ; but the greatest 

 problem with which a plain man can puzzle his 

 brains is to make law, whether good, bad, or indif- 

 ferent, intelligible to an e very-day reader. 1 have 

 spent more time on the consideration of the following 

 chapters than of all the rest of my work put toge- 

 ther; and though a lawyer by profession, and a 

 jockey by taste, I confess that I entertain great 

 doubts whether, even if I understand myself, I shall 

 make myself intelligible to others : however, it is bad 

 policy to be craning over the hedge before you leap, 

 so "have at it !" 



Of course, there are many points in which horse- 

 dealing does not differ from any other buying and 

 selling transaction ; it is governed by the same ge- 

 neral rules as all trade in goods and chattels ; and 



