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put into the stable and fed, and when cold turned out again in the 
field; the day but one after I again worked him, and at plough as 
before — three horses, and he behind ; he worked better, and not 
very lame ; I worked him again for five or six days, about six or 
seven hours a-day. About the 16th of October I ceased plough- 
ing, because I had a job to do at home ; I found he had got so 
lame I could not drive him any longer; T never worked him 
since ; I got Mr. Fooks, a farrier, of Portesham, to look at him ; 
also Mr. Goddard, of Fordington, veterinary surgeon. I wrote to 
defendant to know if I should send the horse back to him, or bring 
him to Dorchester fair on the 25th October ; had no answer ; saw 
defendant at the fair; he said he knew nothing the matter with 
the colt, but that, if I had not had him pulled about by veterinary 
surgeons and such like, he would have taken him back. On the 
23d November, at Martinstown fair, I passed defendant several 
times, but he would not look at me ; the horse received no injury 
whilst in my keeping from a blow or any thing of the sort; the 
horse was lame only when at work with a collar on him. 
Cross-examined. — Never said my horse had kicked him; he 
was sold me as a four-year old ; a mark is on his shoulder now, 
but his mane is gone with the collar ; did not examine him when 
I bought him, but did when at plough; Mr. Groves paid me for 
the horse’s ploughing; discovered no mark in the shoulder till the 
12th October; the £2. .5s.. 6d. claimed is a fair charge for the keep 
of the horse since he left off working; didn’t offer to return him 
before I worked for Mr. Groves ; Fooks did not rub in any oil on 
the shoulder ; I rubbed in some ointment given me by Mr. God- 
dard, to reduce the swelling ; shoulder was more swollen then than 
now : when defendant gave me the warranty, he did not add, “ as 
far as I know ;” on the 25th October, Bascombe and Baker were 
present; I did not say “I took the horse home, worked it, and 
found it according to word;” never said to Mr. Rendall that my 
mare had kicked the horse. 
John Fooks, farrier , at Portesham , examined the horse on the 
18th October last, and found the shoulder bruised ; it appeared to 
be done by a blow, and a great while ; did nothing to it ; have 
seen the horse to-day, and he is nearly the same as then. 
Cross-examined. — It must have been a blow of long standing ; 
it must have been seen immediately; the flesh had withered from 
the bone. 
Samuel Goddard, veterinary surgeon at Fordington. — About 
six weeks or two months ago, I went to the Plume of Feathers Inn 
to see the horse; found he had received an injury of some kind, 
so that the muscles had been absorbed, and the powers had dis- 
appeared, the scapula having yielded gradually to the absorption ; 
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