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but finally buyer and seller came together and in a few 

 days the team arrived in Toronto and soon made their 

 appearance on King street. Soon after their arrival the 

 coachman was with them opposite a mercantile establish- 

 ment, when a cab driver next to him, who was waiting for 

 his passengers, who were shopping in the big dry goods 

 store, asked the coachman where his master had picked 

 up such a rattling pair of horses. When informed that 

 they had just arrived from New York and cost $1,500, he 

 looked them over carefully, and finally told the coachman 

 that he had himself offered the same team to his master 

 for $600 and offered to bet $50 that such was the case. 

 Sure enough, upon further enquiry being made, it was 

 proven beyond a doubt that they were the pair bought 

 here by the American buyer, and so chagrined was the 

 aristocratic citizen over the laugh at his expense that he 

 foolishly sold the team and pocketed a loss of several 

 hundred dollars. Moral — Don't let your pride run away 

 -with your common sense. 



