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(Loud laughter.) That horse would get into a condition, 
after a little going, just as though he had been dragged 
through a pond, and then wrung out again. (Renewed 
laughter.) 
Mr. James. — Then he had not been waterproofed? 
The Plaintiff. — Oh ! no. (Loud laughter.) I only used 
the animal once, and I then took it to Woodford, in Essex, 
six or seven miles away from my place only. I did not 
drive the horse fast, for the best of all reasons — that he could 
not go many yards without my being compelled to pull him 
up, in order that he might get wind, and get his breath. 
(Loud laughter.) 
Thomas White , the groom of the plaintiff, said that he 
had seen the horse in question in the defendant’s stables at 
Bermondsey, and was in Smithfield at the sale. In the 
first instance the defendant said he would take £18 and “our 
brown horse;” but the “ Guv’nor” said he would not give 
that money, but would stand £\5. 
Mr. James. — By “Guv’nor” you mean your “master,” I 
presume ; that term is more usually applied to a male parent, 
I believe. (Laughter.) 
The Witness. — Yes; I means “master,” but we usually 
says “ Guv’nor,” and not master. 
Mr. Baron Platt. — Go on, then, and say “ Guv’nor,” for 
there may be a difficulty in your speaking of him as your 
“ master,” when such is not your custom. (Renewed laughter.) 
The witness then went on to say that the “ Guv’nor” and 
the defendant, after having arranged the terms of the sale, 
went and registered the horse, as a warranted sound animal, 
in the office of the clerk of the market. He believed they 
had a way in Smithfield of hiding the roaring of a broken- 
winded horse for a time by administering physic, and then 
shot in lard. W hen he took the horse back to the defendant, 
the latter expressed his sorrow that it did not suit, and said 
that he would find another, but he told him that that would 
not do, as the “Guv’nor” had had quite enough of buying 
horses from dealers, and therefore, that it would be of no use 
for him to send another horse, for the “ Guv’nor ” would 
have nothing to do with him. The defendant then asked him 
to go and have a glass of ale, which he did. They had some 
conversation about the business, and at length the defendant 
said that he had not sufficient money in his pocket to repay 
him, but that he would give it to the “ Guv’nor ” on 
Friday. 
The assistant-clerk of Smithfield proved the entry in his 
book of the sale of the horse to the plaintiff by the defendant. 
