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CURIOSA. —PLEASING. 
tering the filly (already partly trained by Mad. C.), M. L. had 
been compelled to perform some acts of proprietorship ; and that, 
in this point, the only part of the case with regard to which there 
can be the slightest doubt, the act of proprietorship is usually 
explained in favour of the buyer rather than the seller; 
I am of opinion that the demand of the plaintiff is well 
founded, and that the defendant is bound to restore the sum of 
8000fr., and to pay all expences, allowance being made for any 
depreciation in the value of the filly from any other cause since 
the time of sale. 
Such, gentlemen, is the conclusion which I have the honour 
to submit to the wisdom of your ulterior deliberations. 
Yvart. 
Coinciding with the opinion of M. Yvart, the tribunal con¬ 
demned Madame C. to take back the filly, to return the 3000fr., 
and to pay all expences. 
<!rurio0a* 
P L E A S I IS G. 
5th April, 1835. 
Dear Sir,— It is now about seven years since I left Auld 
Heekie^^ with my diploma as a veterinary surgeon, and only seven¬ 
teen shillings and sixpence in my pocket, to go, like “Jack the 
giant killer,’^ to push my fortune in the wide world ; and, with¬ 
out troubling you with a long detail of all my adventures by “flood 
and field” since I settled in this canny nook, allow me to say, 
that mine has been a lucky lot, and surely, as the proverb says, 
I must have been “ horn loi* a siller spoon in my mouth f and no 
wV a wooden ladle f —that instrument so much prized by my 
honest, couthie, but now almost forgotten countrymen. Forgot¬ 
ten ! did I say? No, no, they will never be forgotten; for the 
remembrance of you, and the remembrance of them all, is twined 
round the strings of my very existence. But to my story. After 
the first week that I had travelled, I found myself employed, on 
the Monday following, strapping stage-coach horses at an inn 
about twenty miles from where 1 am now writing. Yes, strap¬ 
ping dirty horses ! and sometimes abused because I was not so 
clever as my superiors would have wished me to be. But I did 
not murmur at my beastly employment, because I could not 
avoid it; and besides, it was an honest shift, although some of 
my late cigar-smoking class fellows would have been ashamed of 
my clouterly, uncouth appearance, with habiliments of the worst 
possible description, and of the worst possible shape, and that 
