"A horse like this is intended for other kind of customers than any of you." "How do you know that ?" said one; the very same person whom I had heard complaining in the street of the paucity of good horses in the fair.

"Come, let us know what you ask for him ?" "A hundred and fifty pounds!" said I; "neither more nor less." "Do you call that a great price ?" said the man.

"Why, I thought you would have asked double that amount! You do yourself injustice, young man." "Perhaps I do," said I, "but that's my affair; I do not choose to take more." "I wish you would let me get into the saddle," said the man; "the horse knows you, and therefore shows to more advantage; but I should like to see how he would move under me, who am a stranger.

Will you let me get into the saddle, young man ?" "No," said I, "I will not let you get into the saddle." "Why not ?" said the man.

"Lest you should be a Yorkshireman," said I, "and should run away with the horse." "Yorkshire ?" said the man; "I am from Suffolk; silly Suffolk--so you need not be afraid of my running away with the horse." "Oh! if that's the case," said I, "I should be afraid that the horse would run away with you; so I will by no means let you mount." "Will you let me look in his mouth ?" said the man.
"If you please," said I; "but I tell you, he's apt to bite." "He can scarcely be a worse bite than his master," said the man, looking into the horse's mouth; "he's four off.