120 PRECEPT AKD PRACTICE. 



Jem brought the horse out. 



" Why, he has but one eye/' said our tyro, who, 

 tyro though we suppose him to be in going to fairs, 

 Avas not tyro enough to buy a horse with a large 

 cataract in one eye for a sound one. 



*' Well, he has a little speck on that eye, but he 

 sees as well with it as t'other," said the dealer, 

 waving his hand across the eye with a motion that 

 caused the horse to wink at the wind occasioned by 

 the passing hand, though he could not see a load of 

 hay if placed before the eye. "There, you see, he 

 sees well enough." 



Our tyro was somewhat sceptical on that head, so 

 wisely resolved to decline him. 



"Well, come," says the dealer, "I shall please you 

 at last, leastways 111 try, — Jem show out the bay 

 horse. There the lamps are all right there, and he 

 ain't low before." 



" Well," says tyro, " he looks more like the thing ; 

 let me see him move." 



Now the dealer knew well enough that the horse 

 would gain nothing in any man's opinion by being 



