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leg against a wall. He had also thrown his mastei-'s son-in-law, 

 Dr. Harrison, and this was deemed the climax of ingratitude by 

 the benevolent Quaker, who, in consequence, determined to part 

 with him. 



" Scham was then sold to one Rogers, landlord of the Royal 

 Lion, a large inn near Charing Cross, to whose stables he was 

 forthwith transferred; the Quaker making Agba the offer of re- 

 maining in his service, or receiving a sum of money. The mute, 

 determined not to lose sight of his companion, accepted the latter, 

 and, accompanied by the cat, followed Scham to London, and took 

 an obscui'e lodging as near the inn as possible ; for Rogers, having 

 the same impression as the Paris carter, that the deviltric-s of the 

 horse were owing to the malignant influence of the Moor, had re- 

 jected all further intercourse. Every attempt to enter the stable 

 was indignantly resented, not only by Rogers, but by the subor- 

 dinates iu his employ, and Agba bud the satisfaction of seeing two 

 brought out on shutters, and carried to the hospital, from the 



wounds received from the 'born devil,' the appellation Scham had 

 obtained from his new master. Agba, refused all admission to 

 the stables, was almost in despair from being unable to obtain a 

 sight of his favorite; and, determined at all hazards to accomplish 

 his purpose, he scaled the walls which environed the stables, and 

 being caught by Rogers, was committed to Newgate on a charge 

 of attempted l;)urglary. Here, unable to express his innocence, he 

 sunk into despair, although his mild demeanor had excited the pity 

 of his jailers. The Quaker's housekeeper, being called to the 

 prison by a relative who had come under the ban of the law, and 

 learning the cause of the poor Moor's incarceration, proclaimed her 

 conviction of his innocence, and gave so much of the history of 

 Scham, and Agba and his cat, as to produce the greatest commis- 

 eration for the unfortunate mute. 



" His case coming to the ears of the young Lord Godolphin, 

 who was struck with the attachment of the horse and rider, he in- 

 terested himself in his behalf, had an interview with the Quaker, 

 learned his history, purchased the horse from Rogers, who with- 

 drew his prosecution, and poor Agba and Scham were sent ofl' to 

 Gogmagog Hall, there to be treated with the same indifference and 

 contempt that Scham had experienced in the royal stables of 

 Louis XV. 



" Hobgoblin was then the lord of the ascendant in the se- 

 raglio of Gogmagog ; and so cruelly, in A.gba's opinion, was Scham 

 neglected, that he often wished the Barb enclosed within the den 

 of Rogers, where death might have relieved him from his misery. 

 The progeny of Hobgoblin had been hitherto successful above all 

 their competitors; and Lord Godolphin having purchased Roxana, 

 by Flying Childers, out of Monica, for 600 guineas — a great price 



