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payment on the following Monday ; if in the 

 mean time fiich horfe or horfes were not re- 

 turned as uNsouKD." The palpable abfur- 

 dity of propoiitions fo ridiculous and unjuft 

 inftantly deranged all my premeditated plan 

 of proceeding; for upon re-confidering my 

 commiflion and the conditions of {ale, I found 

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

 only to make a zvaiting job of four days in 

 London for payment, but the chance of a 

 LAME MARC at the expiration of that time, 

 inilead of the money. For the purchafer, 

 poffcfiing the privilege of riding her for fo 

 long, might io do to any diftance, or any 

 degree of diftrefs ; and not approving her in 

 every aciion, had only to confer the favour 

 of a biovj upon any particular part, to occa- 

 i;cn temporary pain and limping, that might 

 TufL'fy a return under the plea of u7ifoundnefs ^ 

 rendering the felier a dupe to the force of 

 credulity and repositoric al integrity. 



Under the weight of indignation that 

 naturally arofe from ferious retiedtion, upon 

 fuch an evident want of confulency in mu- 

 tual conditions that VvX are naturally to con- 

 dude, SHOULD fix the flandard of eqjjitYv 



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