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14 You have some horses here for sale, I understand," 

 said he to Jack, who hitched up his breeches, and 

 touched his cap with his forefinger. 



" Yessir," said Jack. 



" Where's your master ?" said the gentleman. 



9t Donkisser," said Jack ; " but I can show them and 

 sell them too." 



There were four of these beautiful screws, all in se- 

 parate boxes ; the bay horse, the subject of dispute, 

 stood in the corner box. A rakish-looking brown blood 

 mare stood next to him ; she had navicular disease in 

 her cobbly-looking, r contracted feet. An ewe-necked, 

 snig-bellied looking thing, with four white legs and q 

 bald face, which Jack said was by Harkaway, and 

 another miserable-looking d 1, whose sire might have 

 been Accident, and dam Misfortune, with splints on both 

 fore-shanks overlapping the knee-joints, and the scars of 

 both old and recent marks of speedy-cut inside the 

 shanks, as well as brushing on the fetlock joints, both 

 before and behind, completed the stud of Double-shuffle. 



"I want something to carry me quietly in saddle; 

 and if you will pick me out one that is likely to suit 

 zne, if I buy it and like it, I will make you a present. 



I Hve at S , my name is K ; your master, I 



think, would know me. What is this brown mare?" 

 said he. 



"A very good mare, sir a very good mare and 

 perfectly quiet in saddle. Will you get on her back a 

 few yards, sir ? ' 



