8R PRECEPT AXD PIIACTICE. 



My friend's conscience need not have troubled 

 itself or its owner, the Colonel was in no danger ; but 

 my friend was not only in danger, but, as Jonathan 

 lias it, "in a pretty considerable fix," for the fellow 

 took the horse with my friend's concurrence, but he 

 also took the money he sold him for without it ; in 

 fact, he never got sight of him for months. Inquiries 

 were useless ; persons who knew him well enough 

 by sight, and also by character, knew nothing of his 

 "■ whereabout ;" but they knew enough of tlie fellow 

 to give my friend the consoling assurance, that under 

 any circumstances he might consider his horse and 

 money gone. It was at best but a breach of trust. 

 He had taken the horse with the owner's consent ; 

 he had failed to bring the money the horse sold for; 

 he had not promised to do so, so perhaps, after all, 

 it might be only a debt ; and in alluding in another 

 place to these gentry, I have stated the usual result 

 of going to law with them. 



To cut the story short, my friend got sight of him 

 at last ; he put a good face on it — he came up with 

 a story ready cut and dried. 



