22 ANNALS OF HORSEMANSHIP. 



Reply to Letter the Fourth. 



SIR, 



UPON a flri^l examination of the two 

 pictures by the Limner in your lane, I am 

 clear you are in poiTeflion of the identical 

 horfe you intended to purchafe, although he 

 does not exhibit quite fo much agility under 

 you, or make fo tearing a figure as when 

 mounted by Mr. who I am well ac- 

 quainted with, and who, you may depend 

 upon, is as honefi; a man as any that deals 

 in horfe flefh. You could have no right 

 to return the horfe if he went no better 

 than one with his legs tied. You ftand in 



the predicament of Lord P , who gave 



twenty guineas for Punch, and when he found 

 he could not make him fpeak, profecuted the 

 Puppet-fhew-man ; but my Lord Chief Juftice 



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