380 ROAD HORSES. 



every particular purpose, dictatorially insinu- 

 ate to a jury. *' that a horse should continue 

 sound for a certain number of days, weeks ^ 

 or months, after the purchase ;" and fix upon 

 a stipulated sum foi' what he has condescend- 

 ed to term a '' sound price ;'' ascertaining 

 such opinion an invariable criterion for all 

 future decisions at Westminster-Hall : or a 

 worthy baron upon another, *' that a man 

 may laiofully correct his wife with a stick 

 no bi«(2fer than his thumb/* But how- 

 ever accurate such calculations may have 

 been made by the very high and respectable 

 authorities I allude to, they cannot be more 

 free from casual exceptions, than the great 

 infinity of rules where Exceptions are aU 

 ways admitted. 



However, as I confess mj^self one of those 

 never implicity bound merely by matter of 

 opinion, with an utter aversion to disposing of 

 horses in Westminster-Hall, and experimen- 

 tally convinced how very suddenly horses/?/// 

 'lame without a visible cause ; as well as how 

 freq uentl)^ they are attacked with acute disease 

 and rapidhj carried of \^A\\\o\\i any particular 

 reason to be recollected, eten from dissec-t' 



