He can detect the rough-coated plausibilities of the straw-yard, equally with the metamorphosis of the clipper or singer.

His practised eye is not to be imposed upon either by the blandishments of the bang-tail, or the bereavements of the dock.
Tattersall will hail him from his rostrum with--'Here's a horse will suit you, Mr.Sponge! cheap, good, and handsome! come and buy him.' But it is needless describing him here, for every out-of-place groom and dog-stealer's man knows him by sight..