104 CONFESSIONS OF A HORSE DEALEI?. 



" ' No effects ! !' I don't want ' effects. 1 I want 

 78 10s." 



" Nobody of that name has an account here. 



0h, that be d d ! How! What! How the 

 d 1 is that ?* and then the truth suddenly flashed across 

 his mind, he had been sold himself, and given the horse 

 away. He strongly suspected where the horse was, 

 but could obtain no clue, as the dealing innkeeper and 

 myself only laughed at him. Double-shuffle returned 

 home after the races, made a great bounce and bother ; 

 but the horse was sold by public auction, and scarcely 



' realised the expenses. Mr. H , of York, reduced the 



debt to 50, to bring it within the jurisdiction of the 

 county court. The judge ordered it to be paid by twelve 

 monthy instalments, but Mr. Double shuffled out of the 

 country before the first instalment became due ; and so 



Mr. H was shuffled and copered out of seventy York 



guineas, which one would think (from the difficulty in 

 getting hold of them by these means in that country) 

 ought at least to be worth seven hundred in any other. 



I knew a brewer's traveller, who resided in one of 

 the most populous towns of the midland counties. He 

 was a thorough go-ahead sort of fellow, who could get 

 orders in his particular line where some milk-and- 

 water sort of travellers would have starved. He drove 

 a remarkably fast-trotting bay mare, in brown harness, 

 attached to a neat light-built gig. His attire was de- 

 cidedly of the horsey character. It consisted of Bed- 

 ford-cord trousers made very tight, cut-away coat, &c. 9 



