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Thomas Paddington is uncle to the defendant; lives in Essex : 
was at Tattersall’s when the horse was sold. Attended 
the sale, and a friend bought him for him. Had seen him se¬ 
veral times before; has had him ever since. Has ridden him 
frequently : very quiet in the stable, and very quiet out—the 
quietest horse alive. Has ridden him with the hounds; and 
when he has got another fox, he means to enter him for the 
hunter’s stakes at Chelmsford. 
Cross-examined .—“ Was he quiet from the first with you?— 
from the very first? Would he not jump and dance about a 
little at times ?” “ When he was with other horses, he 
would play a little.”—“ Ah ! you don’t mind these things : I 
hear that you are one of the boldest riders in the field V 9 “ Not 
the worse man for that, am I V 9 The horse was led from Tat- 
tersall’s to a stable near St. Paul’s, and his son led him home.— 
“ You came up to Tattersall’s purposely to buy him, did’nt 
you?” “ May be I did.”—“Then why did you not ride him 
home yourself?” “ Because I came by coach, and had no sad¬ 
dle.”—“Why did you not bring a saddle with you?” “Why 
should I bring a saddle before I knew whether I should have a 
horse? You may as well ask me why I did not bring up my 
wife ?” Went out of the yard quietly—went home quietly : never 
restive.—“ Bu^ you say that he would play a little when with 
other horses ?” “ Why, I’ll tell you about that : I got him 
across some timbers and hurt him, and I had him up for more 
than three weeks; and then, the first time he got into the 
marshes, he began to play among the other horses; and the 
more he played, the more I liked him. I hunted him at least 
eight or nine times.” In his judgment he was not a vicious 
horse at all. 
Verdict for the defendant, on the plea that, although the horse 
might have been restive when in the possession of the plaintiff 
and others, there was not sufficient proof of his having been 
previously a vicious horse. 
Quid sit pulchrum, quid turpe, quid utile, quid non.—Hon. 
Cleanings in Natural History. By Edward Jesse, Esq., 
Surveyor of His Majestfs Parks and Palaces. London: 
John Murray, Albemarle Street. New edition. 
This work contains a good deal of interesting matter on the 
subject of natural history. 
