"You will do no such thing," said his lordship, speaking so fast that he almost stuttered.
"Sir," said he to me, "I must give you what you ask; Symmonds, take possession of the animal for me," said he to the other jockey, who attended him.

"You will please to do no such thing without my consent," said I; "I have not sold him." "I have this moment told you that I will give you the price you demand," said his lordship; "is not that sufficient ?" "No," said I, "there is a proper manner of doing everything--had you come forward in a manly and gentlemanly manner to purchase the horse, I should have been happy to sell him to you, but after all the fault you have found with him, I would not sell him to you at any price, so send your friend to find up another." "You behave in this manner, I suppose," said his lordship, "because this fellow has expressed a willingness to come to your terms.

I would advise you to be cautious how you trust the animal in his hands; I think I have seen him before, and could tell you.

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." "What can you tell of me ?" said the other, going up to him, "except that I have been a poor dicky-boy, and that now I am a dealer in horses, and that my father was lagged; that is all you could tell of me, and that I don't mind telling myself: but there are two things they can't say of me, they can't say that I am either a coward, or a screw either, except so far as one who gets his bread by horses may be expected to be; and they can't say of me that I ever ate up an ice which a young woman was waiting for, or that I ever backed out of a fight.