156 Memoir of Tom Smith, 



horse back to Osborne, stopped the cheque at 

 the bank, and heard no more of the matter. 



This convinced him of the soundness of his 

 plan of never purchasing a horse till the next 

 day ; and it also showed how much more 

 valuable a man's own trial is than any war- 

 ranty in the world. Indeed, he heartily 

 wishes that all warranty of horses should be 

 abolished b}^ law, and purchasers be thus 

 forced to exercise their own judgment. 



