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carriage returned, the stables are vacated, also the 

 apartments ; the horses are fed highly on com and 

 chaff, and plenty of hay and plenty to drink. Then 

 Muggins proposes a drive, and gives his new steeds a 

 good trot through the Park, when suddenly the gees 

 begin to make an awful noise. He consults his coachman, 

 who pronounces them as broken- winded. Muggins goes t o 

 Cuthbert's apartments but finds that the bird has flown. 



A few days pass, and a rough-and-ready young fellow 

 hears that Mr. B. Muggins has two horses for sale because 

 they are broken-winded, and he tells Mr. Muggins he 

 has a farm and will give the horses light farm work, 

 being a discharged soldier (when really he was " on 

 the run "). He would like them cheap, and he succeeds 

 in getting them for a mere song. But they do not go 

 on the farm. They have a nice drink, with little or 

 no food, and are placed in a repository as the property 

 of Lord Neverdrop. Cuthbert runs them up to one 

 hundred guineas, and they are knocked down to another 

 young mug, who thinks that because that horsy-looking 

 gentleman bid so much for them he has not given too 

 much by giving a fiver more. 



There is another advertiser who advertises " Active 

 cart-horses — mares in foal — must be sold through death." 

 Juggins calls to see the horses, and the lady, or the 



