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their irremediable form, yet taking leave of their 

 senses at the critical moment, have been quieted with 

 this phrase, and have persuaded themselves they 

 would afterwards be w^ell contented ; but month after 

 month has passed, and daily annoyance, as they 

 observed their acquaintances ferret these blemishes 

 out, has been all that fell to their lot ; so their 

 own original and naturally correct sight and judg- 

 ment, having by this insinuating speech been whirled 

 out of their heads, and shunted aside like unto the 

 unfortunate legs they now have on hand, and cannot 

 get rid of, they bravely resolve to simulate belief in its 

 virtue, to re-echo it, and spout it out for the benefit 

 of others. As they in their ignorance were misled 

 and deemed it unanswerable, so they are now reduced 

 to the alternative of suffering a fifty per cent, loss, or 

 of trying to instil the same delusive language, indis- 

 criminately into the heads of both friends and foes. 

 When brought face to face with these versatile merry- 

 go-round whirligigs, we also must boldly unfold our 

 knowledge of human nature, as well as of horse 

 nature, and convince them that we are not to be 

 dumfounded, nor taken off" our balance, as they may 

 have been, by the curt sentence: — "You can't get 

 perfection in anything," any more than by that of 

 " our horses can't be so very bad, considering that 



