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Lies, and I only got rid of him by folio-wing the 

 course that I have suggested — honestly mentioning 

 his fault. A gentleman bought him "for the novel- 

 ty of the thing;" it seemed so strange to tell the 

 truth in horse-dealing ! I was happy to hear, two 

 months afterwards, that he continued well pleased 

 with his bargain.* 



Gentle reader, I have finished my task, or rather, 

 my amusement : if my information proves as useful 

 to you, as it has been to myself, you will read my 

 little book a second time, and grudge neither the 

 time nor the price. I have had above a hundred 

 horses in my stables during the last two-and-twenty 



^ While engaged in correcting this sheet, my publishers re- 

 ceived the following note, in reference to the case of Patteshall v. 

 Tranter, quoted at page 32Y. It is too late to refer to it at the 

 proper place, I therefore introduce it here, with many thanks to 

 my anonymous critic. 



"'Patteshall v. Tranter.' This cause was tried, a second time, 

 at the spring assize, 1837, at Hertford, before Lord Denman and 

 a special jury. The plaintiff lost it, failing to prove the warranty 

 of the horse, and not on any of the points on which Mr. Justice 

 Park directed the nonsuit on the former trial. X. B. The first 

 trial took place in the spring of 1834, instead of 1835, as men- 

 tioned in ' Caveat Emptor.' " 



