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could judge by), each of those would suit; but 

 he fiuds that the little square white-bound- with-red 

 quarter-cloth, with its showy fillet strings, has so set 

 off the rump and back of the horse, that, when 

 shoved back and his fore-part is brought from the 

 elevated position in which they were, and are seen 

 on a level with his hind ones, the commanding fore- 

 hand becomes commonplace, and the body so formed 

 as to indicate that a man on it would be sitting on 

 an inclined plane with the highest part behind him. 

 He wont do, so is allowed to join his companions. 

 A crack of the dealer's whip sends the whole of 

 the string up to their places, from which they had 

 somewhat retrograded to ease their aching loins 

 and legs, from the tension on them caused by the 

 elevation of the ground under their fore parts. 



" Who-ho, ye high-bred rogues !" cries the dealer, 

 seeing them all right, and some looking back at him 

 or his whip. *'Well," cries the man, "you thought 

 the brown horse low before : this chestnut ain't that ; 

 he has a forehand fit to carry Prince Albert. Put 

 him back, Jem.'* 



