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do in the supposed circumstances in which we have 

 represented him ; and we shall take the liberty of 

 making farther use of him, to show what he or some 

 one similarly organised about the head would probably 

 do in future. 



Our reader has not, we hope, forgotten Mr. Ver- 

 dant, who purchased the '* beautiful dappled grey." 

 We did not represent Mr. Verdant as a particularly 

 weak young man ; he was merely not awake to 

 practices that have duped many a clever one. 



The young gentleman who went to Stourbridge 

 Fair was rather a knowing hand — a fair judge of a 

 horse, though a bad judge of a fair. He was, as they 

 say in the north, "a wee bit too cannie" for those 

 who hoped to find in him " a flat" ready made to 

 theii* hands. He left, vowing he would never go to 

 a fair again : he probably will though, and as pro- 

 bably will get what he wants. He showed them, at 

 all events, he was too wide awake to be talked into 

 taking what he did not want — a flat-catcher. 



Now we cannot speak in as favourable terms of 

 our young friend who had the stud. He had go.t 



