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horse more hustled and bustled. Never was a horse 

 mo.-e abruptly pulled up, and never was a professional 

 ear more attentively applied to nostril and wind-pipe! 

 No go, however, for there was not the suspicion of 

 a whistle, and his cough was as clear as a bell. So, 

 after a disparaging remark on the capabilities of the 

 Marquis's delegate, a glass of sherry and a biscuit, 

 Mr. Mowbray certified, in his well-known scrawly 

 characters, " that he had examined a bay gelding, 

 etc , etc., and believed him to be sound/' 



This scrap of paper and the horse were returned 

 to old Brigs that afternoon, and if a coolness has 

 sprung up since between Mr. Mowbray and young 

 Horseman, and between Mr. Brigs and Mr. Mow- 

 bray, and, indeed, between Air. Brigs and Mr. 

 Horseman too, it does not very greatly concern us, 

 as my story is at an end, and I hope you are as w^ell 

 satisfied with it as Will Horseman was with his 



JUMPERS. 



I'ORSES may jump well from various causes. 



I Some undoubtedly do so naturally, more 



II because they have been well schooled, and 



others because they have acquired, in determined, if 

 rough hands, a knowledge of the consequences should 



B 



