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ment, more or less ; and that her favourite horse, 

 if to be sold under the circumstances stated, of her 

 going abroad, would have been gladly purchased by 

 some friend accustomed to see it carry the lady 

 alluded to. 



We will even suppose the lady broke up her esta- 

 blishment suddenly, and had not time to dispose of 

 her equine property before she went, how came it 

 that the very horse her friends and acquaintances 

 would, in common phrase, have run after, remained 

 unsold ? The next thing that would strike any one 

 of the smallest penetration would be, had the lady 

 no gentlemen friends to whom she could leave her 

 favourite for sale ? Was it likely she would have 

 employed a man whose appearances, manner, and 

 language were at variance with those of any person 

 with whom it is liliely she could have come in con- 

 tact ? 



Now, had this man dressed himself and repre- 

 sented himself as the late groom of the lady, and 

 that her horse was sent to the place at which he was 

 advertised, her stables having been given up, in such 



