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he will be no better off : on the contrary, it will be 

 only set down to his disadvantage, as evincing a con- 

 sciousness that he was to blame. If he refuses to do 

 this, the case is carried into a court of law; and 

 whenever any horse case does get there, so universally 

 biassed and prejudiced are the feelings of the court 

 in favour of the purchaser, and against the dealer, 

 that though no jury would willingly be guilty of a 

 decision of gross injustice, when the assertions of one 

 party are implicitly believed, and those of the other 

 totally the reverse, it is easy to judge in whose favour 

 the case will end. 



Another stumbling-block in the way of the dealer 

 arises from a cause little suspected by his customers. 

 This arises from their servants. If the dealer does 

 not submit to be pillaged by them, it matters little 

 how good may be the horse he sells : he will be made 

 to turn out badly by some means or other. 



Let it be understood that I am now speaking of 

 servants, as of other classes of men en masse : there 

 are many faithful, honest, and attached individuals 

 among these ; and that there are not more is quite as 

 much the fault of the master as of the man ; for so 

 long as masters will say, " I know my fellow is as great 

 a rascal as ever lived, but he turns my cab out so well 

 I cannot part with him;" so long does he encourage 

 this man in being so, and others to follow his ex- 

 ample: and so long as a master or mistress will 

 keep servants who they know are daily robbing them, 

 and nightly associating in public-houses with the 

 lowest of the low, probably thieves and pickpockets, 

 and retain them in their service merely because they 

 are clever in their several capacities, so long will they 

 have rascals for their servants ; and such the generality 

 of London servants are, or by example shortly become. 



