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and I called in the opinion of Mr. Sewell. He at 

 once pronounced him lame from spavin. My reader 

 must perceive that I am not quite destitute of 

 experience; yet I had never detected either the 

 lameness or the disease ; the cutting was the only 

 ' obvious symptom of either to an unskilful eye, 

 though, it must be owned, one sufficiently decisive. 

 It is only due to Osborne to say that he received 

 I him back again with very little hesitation ; notwith- 

 standing one of his subordinate agents blustered 

 loudly about it, and, " if it were his horse, he 

 j would not take him back at any price, after being 

 1 so knocked about! ! ! " the only "knocking about" 

 j being that of his own limbs. From Osborne, I 

 I have always received civility and attention, nor 

 has he ever " taken me in ;" but I never trust any 

 commission dealer, farther than my own eyes war- 

 rant the confidence. I may observe, en passant, 

 that whenever a horse is returned on a dealer's 

 hands for unsoundness, unless the seller is one of 

 that respectable class which I have before de- 

 scribed, this is the ordinary salute, although the 

 animal may have been nursed like my lady's lap- 

 dog, and prove as unsound as a walnut in January, 

 i If you are sure that you are right, and that the 

 1 man is solvent, your best, and indeed your only 

 retort, is a letter from your attorney. 



