But I affected dullness, and laughed in scorn.
'Seeing is believing,' I said.

'I doubt if you knows good horse when you see one, my friend.' 'Oh, don't I ?' he said, winking.

'Indeed!' 'I doubt it,' I answered stubbornly.
'Then come with me, and I will show you one,' he retorted, discretion giving way to vain-glory.

His wife and the others, I saw, looked at him dumbfounded; but, without paying any heed to them, he rose, took up a lanthorn, and, assuming an air of peculiar wisdom, opened the door.
'Come with me,' he continued.

'I don't know a good horse when I see one, don't I?
I know a better than yours, at any rate!' I should not have been surprised if the other men had interfered; but I suppose he was a leader among them, they did not, and in a moment we were outside.