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animal, when it can, under pretence of likewise 

 stroking the face, be passed over the part which is 

 supposed to have been tampered with ; and in the 

 act a little pressure may be made upon the suspicious 

 region : then, if the swelling has been induced in 

 the manner stated, the passage of the hand is suffi- 

 cient to squeeze out the air, and the contrast which 

 the two sides of the face will afterwards present, 

 gives to the countenance of the poor horse, a very- 

 knowing and peculiar expression. Let the person, 

 however, who thus undertakes to expose roguery, be 

 assured of his ability to protect himself in the office 

 he has assumed ; for the gentlemen who display 

 their ingenuity on horses, are not averse to occa- 

 sionally mutilating the human frame. To lay bare 

 and detect such low, mean, and obvious cheatery, 

 as the above, properly belongs to the police; and 

 the least acute of the force, ought to be equal 

 to the detection of so gross an imposition. The 

 swelling, when caused by inflation, always has an 

 unnatural aspect, such as a school-boy would find 

 no difficulty in recognising, after his attention has 

 been directed to the point. It looks puffed, and 

 when the jaw moves, the part does not play freely 



