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rally to be found haltered to the rails in Smithrield. 

 For me, I have not during many years, dared to trust 

 myself in that epitome of hell, the horse market. 

 However, our Christian customs render such a place 

 necessary, indeed indispensable; the market is held 

 on Friday afternoon, for the lowest kinds of horses, 

 and some few sound cart horses of the inferior size 

 and price. This market, and the fairs, are certainly 

 the best places in which to get rid of low priced 

 horses, since the sales are unburdened with charges. 

 The superior and first rate slow draught horses, for 

 brewers' drays and the heaviest town work, must be 

 sought at the houses of the considerable dealers, 

 chiefly in the city ; or if foreign horses are preferred, 

 at the houses of those on the coast of Kent. 



SECTION XXIV.— Warranty. 



Considerable discrepancy prevailed in former 

 days, relative to horse warranty, on which subject, 

 at length, our notions have become more settled; 

 and if in a law case, at present, any material dif- 

 ficulties arise, they generally result from good hard 

 swearing, on one or both sides of the question. When 

 we read and hear of such vast consequence attached 

 to the sanctity of the oath, and reflect, look round 

 and see, what a wide field lies open before us. The 

 late Lord Mansfield ruled, that any price above ten 

 pounds, made a sound horse. But however good a 

 civilian, the noble Judge was certainly an unsound 

 jockey. I remember a rum conversation which took 

 place in court, between that Judge and a Bow-street 



