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chaser's rank would be fatal again. The man felt 

 convinced something unfair had been done to his 

 horse ; but, with more liberality than his customer 

 would have shown on any occasion, he never sus- 

 pected him of having had recourse to or connived 

 at any thing even ungentlemanly in the affixlr, 

 but suspected it lay wholly with the groom, well 

 knowing that, if, from any cause, a horse is pur- 

 chased without their hearty concurrence, these 

 gentlemen are pretty fertile in expedients to get 

 rid of him, unless their master is one not to be 

 played with. This precious piece of honesty 

 having left his master, as a sum up of his cha- 

 racter, confessed the whole affair of the returned 

 horse to a friend of mine, from whom I had the 

 anecdote. 



The result of the dealer proving rcvstlve in the 

 above affair would have been this : he would have 

 been set down as a o-reat roo;ue for sellino; the 

 gentleman an unsound horse ; whereas the true 

 state of the case was, the gentleman was no little 

 simpleton for buying what did not suit him, and 

 then a consummate roojue for returnincr a sound 

 animal as an unsound one. But so " the world 

 wags." 



Such IS the pleasure of warranting horses in 

 any way to some persons. We will with pleasure 

 allow^ that few gentlemen would play the above 

 part ; but though they would not, if they got an 



