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" We'll soon make you know us," said the lawyer, as 

 he walked away with the victim. 



"Sure an' I niver sold a gentleman a horse in Man- 

 chester in my life, and to blazes wid you 'an your paper 

 an* all !" said Mick, as he tore up the writ, and tossed 

 it in the air, like a swarm of butterflies. 



Patrick Dunlevy attended the race meetings as usual, 

 but was never seen conversing with Mick and Denny, 

 Mick was followed from place to place by the lawyer, 

 who in due course served the declaration, and when the 

 term of grace expired, the Queen of Hearts and the 

 Maid of Kilkenny, the only two horses with them then, 

 were seized in execution, and sold for little more than 

 paid the expenses of the sale, and finally Micky, who 

 purposely kept in the way, was arrested and taken to 

 Lancaster Castle, but he paid the debt and was libe- 

 rated. His turn now came, and he sued the victim for the 

 illegal distraint on the two racers, and for false impri- 

 sonment. The case was tried at Liverpool; Micky 

 proved that he was in Knutsford Gaol at the time the 

 sale took place, and therefore could not, at that time 

 and place, have represented the agent of an Irish peer, 

 in Manchester. The jury awarded damages, 100 each 

 for the two horses, and 100 for the false imprisonment, 

 with costs. " We'll make you know us," said Micky 

 to the lawyer, as he jostled against him on leaving the 

 court. 



This, I trust, may be a lesson to those who are cheated 

 by horse copers with no fixed residence, to sit down 



