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myself by ocular inspection, that the dashing iron 



had been kicked away, only the week before, by 



the horse warranted "safe in harness I" About a 



month after, not having yet found what I wanted, 



I read an advertisement in the paper, of "a horse, 



" stanhope, and harness, to be sold together. The 



" stanhope almost new, and very recently from the 



" coachmaker's shop : the horse possessing the 



" grandest action imaginable, and making alto* 



*' gether, the most elegant turn-out in London ; 



" bona fide the property of a gentleman that might 



" be referred to." I went to the place, and at once 



recognized my old acquaintance, whose action, a 



posteriori at least, had been as "grand" as could 



reasonably be desired ; and as for the stanhope, 



the most practised eye in Long Acre could scarcely 



have discovered the true cause of its having so 



recently quitted the coachmaker's loft ! Another 



striking specimen of gentility in horse-dealing 



transactions ! 



