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it) tliat those who pray with their eyehds pendent, 

 like their horses tails, may sometimes be sold 

 themselves. 



Now, reader or no reader, if it is yom- religion 

 or your custom to tell me a horse is sound when he 

 is not ; or to try to impose upon .me by saying that 

 ugly build, and various defects and blemishes are 

 of no consequence, then it is mine to look out for an 

 opportunity to turn the tables on you as I succeeded 

 in doing on Mr. Weatherside a few years ago to my 

 great comfort when he, at the instigation of a rich 

 relative, endeavoured to get to windward of me with 

 " two fine steppers," one a piper, the other with the 

 stringhalt. I never allowed him to detect that I was 

 aware of anything wrong; but I quietly resolved to 

 punish if possible, this praise-giving performer, 

 whose compassionate soul induced him to bestow such 

 liberal panegyrics on God's most noble but speechless 

 creatures for six days in the week, never unmindful 

 of the halt or the maimed ; the seventh he devoted to 

 his prayers and post obits. It is with much diffidence 

 that I relate the whole story, because civilization in 

 England, at least round and about the Metropohs, is 

 now so refined, and candour so openly conspicuous in 

 every dealing where money is concerned, that the 

 virtuous indignation of all those whose own little 



