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good deal ; he, as I have said, was dread- 

 fully thin, and his back so bad that it would 

 have been great cruelty to put a saddle on 

 him; so I was perplexed, and did not 

 know what to do till my Bengalee came to 

 my assistance with advice which I was only 

 too happy to follow, but I confess so artful 

 a dodge would never have entered my own 

 brain. 



He said : " This dam horse too much 

 thin ; he disgrace to a bdra Sahib : Master 

 must get koprd for horse and tie him up 

 in it, and roll his legs up, and have him 

 led by master's sats." Which meant that 

 the horse was much too thin for a great 

 gentleman like me to ride ; that I must 

 buy clothing for him, and put bandages 

 on his legs, and have him led by the horse 

 keeper, and then no one would know what 

 a disreputable brute he looked ! In the 



