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their introduction for either improvement or 

 utihty. 



Having formerly made some few observa- 

 tions upon the convenience of public repo- 

 sitories for the sale of horses by auction, I 

 am induced, from a recent discovery, to add 

 a single remark upon one of their local laxvs, 

 indicative of great apparent probity in the 

 proprietors of such receptacles, but replete 

 with danger to those who consign valuable 

 horses for sale, should tiie rules so made be 

 perserved in. Since the publication of my 

 former volume, a friend (upon my making 

 an occasional journey to London) begged me 

 to execute the commission of sellins: a sound 

 five-year-old mare at one of the most fashion- 

 able repositories in the metropolis. Reaching 

 London the day preceding the sale, and giving 

 my instructions, I returned in the morning, 

 and after amusing myself upon different parts 

 of the premises, accidently approached the 

 pulpit; upon which Avas fixed literary in- 

 formation, '' That persons selHng horses, WAR- 

 rantilD sound, on a Monday, were entitled 

 to the money on Friday, and those so sold 

 ^nd warranted on a Thursday, might receive 



