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other side. The skin is sewn together, and the horse 



ceases henceforth to suffer the pain in his feet, and in a 

 short time the incision is healed ; but a mark is left, 

 frequently disclosing itself by a line of white hairs ; 

 these are dyed to the corresponding colour of the sur- 

 rounding parts, and the inexperienced eye cannot detect 

 any mark of lameness, for the horse is to all appearance 

 sound. 



The horse selected for the purpose of swindling the 

 Welsh farmer, as I have already told my readers, was a 

 roarer, and had undergone the operation of neurotonomy. 

 He had been long bought from a gentleman, whose veteri- 

 nary surgeon had returned him as incurable of the navi- 

 cular disease, and in place of shooting him or nerving him, 

 and turning him out as a pensioner, he was sold for a 

 mere trifle to a gang of copers, who now kept him for 

 no other purpose than that of swindling the inexperi- 

 enced. This horse was about sixteen years old, but his 

 mouth had been so skilfully " bishoped," and the in- 

 dentations over his eyes so well puffed up, that the un- 

 suspecting observer would suppose him to be only six 

 3'ears old ; he was a rich brown colour, about sixteen 

 hands high, in fine condition, and very handsome. 



Coper No. 2 was dressed like a well-to-do farmer, and 

 took charge of this screw, whose value was certainly 

 not more than ten pounds. The lynx-eyed Coper No. I 

 watched the Welshman sell his sheep, and marked him 

 down at the inn where he went with the purchaser to 

 receive his money. He then had a second consultation 



