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as six-arid-thirty balls popped down a broken-winded 

 one's throat one after the other: it is nevertheless 

 fact ; he seemed to take it as a matter of course. I 

 saw the same horse sold more than ten times over in 

 Dublin in about six weeks ; so, as he doubtless got 

 his dose each time he was sold, reckoning by length, 

 he got in that time about thirty yards of ball down 

 his throat. Pretty well for the time ! If he has 

 gone on ever since, I conclude his inside has by this 

 time become tolerably well lubricated. 



I have mentioned sickening medicines, and it might 

 appear to some persons strange that a dealer should 

 wish to sicken his own horse. Well, then, suppose a 

 dealer has bought a thoroughly -known vicious restive 

 run-away brute to be sold he must be tried ; and to 

 be tried, he must be rode. Now it is not so extra- 

 ordinary he should wish to sicken him a bit. If my 

 reader has ever enjoyed the pleasant sensation of a 

 thorough sea-sickness, I will answer for him, that, 

 hasty or belligerent as he might be on ordinary occa- 

 sions, he was tame enough then : so I have seen horses 

 so violent that it was next to impossible to mount 

 them, and as difficult to keep on their backs when 

 mounted, rendered so sick and tame that you might 

 have lifted them into a waggon for all they cared at 

 the time ; and thus have they been prepared when 

 " the Gentleman was coming to ride them." In a few 

 hours the effect goes off, and then, when the Gentleman 

 attempts to ride, probably he goes off too. " Very 

 astonishing! nothing could carry him quieter than 

 the horse did yesterday." If the Gentleman is only 

 astonished, he is very lucky ; but he is farther 

 astonished, when, on calling on the dealer, he pro- 

 bably has also gone : so altogether he finds it a very 



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