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his judgment, and no mercy is shown either in the 

 bargain or the chaff that precedes ifc. According 

 to an old saying, there is no friendship in horse 

 dealing,' and here is an instance : 



c Amongst others who used to hunt with the New 

 Forest hounds was Dicky Wise, a great character, 

 who always rode with a spare stirrup-leather round 

 his neck, for the benefit, he said, of any of his friends 

 in case they should break one. Wise once had a deal 

 with a sporting butcher of Southampton, also a well- 

 known character, one Jack Hewitt, who came from 

 Bath, and horsed one or two coaches. Wise's horse 

 was a rank roarer, and the butcher's had an awful 

 spavin, but they agreed to exchange even-handed, 

 without examining each other's horses. The next 

 day Hewitt went out hunting and found out the 

 roaring, but said nothing about it. The following 

 day Wise rode his horse with the hounds, and, com- 

 ing down the High Street on his return, he passed 

 the shop, where Hewitt was standing at his door. 

 The horse was going on three legs, and Wise 

 hallooed out to him, " No friendship in horse dealing, 

 Mr. Hewitt there is no friendship in horse deal- 

 ing ! " Wise was very touchy if anybody found fault 

 with his horses. There was a clergyman who hunted 

 in the New Forest, a tall man, and very plain in 

 the face, with his knees knocking one against the 

 other, and his feet standing wide apart. One day he 

 addressed Wise thus: "That is a very ugly horse you 



