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EDITORIAL OBSERVATIONS. 
5thly. Was the fall of the horse attributable to accident; 
or was it owing to any inability, or want of care or skill on 
the part of the boy ? 
It seems to us that by the answers to be given to these 
questions ought the matter to be determined. How far they 
are already answered by our correspondent may be gathered 
from his communication. According to this account, he 
certainly appears to have the turn of the equity of the case 
in his favour; taking which to be established, we cannot help 
expressing our doubts whether he has acted the part of justice 
to himself in consenting to an arbitration; and whether, had 
he chosen to encounter “the glorious uncertainty of the law,” 
he would not have come off with more laurels round his hat, 
though, perhaps, still with not less abstraction of weight 
from his purse. 
