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" I see nothing ; has he been down ?" 



" Down, indeed ! no, I think I can ride better 

 than that; but he has a scar as long as my arm." 



" Then you need not have been so long in find- 

 ing it out. Did you expect for thirty guineas to 

 buy such a horse as that without a blemish ?" 



" Blemish ! but Til take the law of you, you 

 rascal, you may depend upon it. My first cousin 

 is an attorney, and he will bring the action for 

 love, ril make you smart for it yet." 



My first cousin, the attorney, if an honest man, 

 tells him that he is a fool for his pains ; and if a 

 rogue, makes him pay a hundred pounds to learn 

 that a blemish is no unsoundness ! 



I have known a yet more unlucky fate ; or at 

 least more mortifying. A friend of mine called on 

 me one day in a very sulky mood ; he had " been 

 nicely tricked ; choused out of fifty pounds by a 

 swindling knave, and got nothing but a lame 

 jhorse for his money." 



"Then why not return him?" 



" Oh ! the dealer swears he was sound when I 

 itook him away yesterday, and what's the use of 

 going to law with those fellows ? they will swear 

 black's white." 



" Very true ; but let me have a look at him : 

 where does he stand ?" 



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