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of some low dealer, who gets his friends to bid him up 

 to a certain price— any bid beyond that, and he goes. 

 He has thus found an indisputable owner, and it is 

 ten to one but a pretty bargain the new owner has of 

 him. Tattersall has nothing to do but to receive the 

 money of tlie purchaser, and hand it over on pay-day 

 to Mr. Brown. 



The purchaser may, perhaps, long before that time 

 have discovered his having bought a roarer, a half- 

 blind, or lama one. It is, perhaps, well for the pur- 

 chaser if he has only one of these objections. The 

 reply on Tattersall's part to any complaint made to 

 him would be, "The horse was sold without any 

 warranty, so I could not refuse the seller his money ;" 

 and if you were well known to him, he would per- 

 haps say, " How could you be foolish enough to buy 

 a horse you knew nothing about, or anybody else?" 

 Pretty consolation this : the purchaser has been put 

 in a hole, and virtually told he was an ass for getting 

 there. 



I will here mention an anecdote ; and, as it is to 

 a certain degree against myself, there can be no 



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