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my friend to purchase her if she went at a low price. He 
did so; but, shortly afterwards, ascertaining that the vender 
was a notorious screw-dealer, I informed my friend that he 
must expect to find out something disagreeable about his 
new bargain, and reminded him of the adage, “ that the 
buyer hath need of an hundred eyes, the seller of only one,” 
and so it proved. 
She was sent to my infirmary for the night. Upon food 
being given her, the flow of saliva into the manger and round 
where she stood was excessive, and although she ate a quan¬ 
tity of hay and pollard, the act of mastication was attended 
by the generation and waste of such a large quantity of saliva 
that I had no longer any doubt but that she was no bargain; 
the case, however, to me was one of a novel kind, and may 
be to some of your numerous readers. 
In the morning, I advised the dealer of these circum¬ 
stances ; he replied, he knew she was a ee slaverer,” but not 
a bit the more unsound for that, and he dared me to write a 
certificate that she was; for, although she “ frothed” a little 
while eating, she did not at any other time. I wasted few 
words upon this man; but gave him to understand that if he 
refused to take her back, the issue would be tried upon his 
warranty. 
I now tied the mare up without food for six hours, and at 
the expiration of this time the manger contained several pints 
of saliva and froth; the swelling of the cheeks also had in¬ 
creased, and the buccal membrane was pallid and infiltrated. 
This proved the utter untruth of the dealer’s remark, that 
she only “ slavered” while eating. She did not, I will admit, 
discharge so much when without food as she did while 
eating; but the quantity secreted and wasted under either 
circumstances quite surprised me. 
As the mare was fortunately not paid for, the worthy 
dealer again consented to become her fortunate proprietor, 
naming one condition as a sine qua non , viz., that he should 
have a certificate of unsoundness. This I did not hesitate to 
wTite. 
Seeing the dealer a few days since, I was prompted to 
inquire into her history. He said, first, with a chuckle of 
half-suppressed pleasure, accompanied with a few knowing 
winks, that he sold her again in a day or two for a pound 
more than she fetched at the sale;—that she was in his pos¬ 
session for two or three weeks, and was always in the way 
referred to ; but, that a few days ago, she died “ raving mad” 
at Romford, or somewhere in that neighbourhood; no doubt 
in the hands of a similar owner, and on her way to that mart 
