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payment on the following Monday ; if, in the 

 mean time, such horse or horses were not re- 

 turned as unsound/' The palpable absur- 

 dity of propositions so ridiculous and unjust 

 instantly deranged all my premeditated plan 

 of proceeding ; for, upon re-considering my 

 commission, and the conditions of sale, I found 

 if the mare was sold at the hammer, I had not 

 only to make a waiting job of four days in 

 London for payment, but the chance of a 

 LAME MARE at the expiration of that time 

 instead of the money : for the purchaser, 

 possessing the privilege of riding her for so 

 long, might so do to any distance, or any 

 degree of distress ; and not approving her in 

 every action, had only to confer the favour 

 of a blozv upon any particular part, to occa- 

 sion temporary pain and limping, that might 

 justify a return under the plea of unsoundness, 

 rendering the seller a dupe to the force of 

 credulity, and reposi^ouial integrity. 



Under the weight of indignation that 

 naturally arose from serious reflections upon 

 such an evident want of consistency in mu- 

 tual conditions, that, we are naturally to con- 

 clude, SHOULD fix the standard of equity. 



