Horse Knowledge

It is stated by H irr'son 'NVeir, tb; t b - twecn 1750 and 1760 a Scottish lawyer made a journey tp London. At that period such journeys vere usually performed with horses, when tho travoler mightbuy a horse and sell him at the end o: his jo u-ney. The lawyer in question had sold the horso on which he had ridden t London as soon as he had roaclud that place. When the time for his return arrivid he went to Suiithfield, thon a horse niarket, to purchuse a hackney for his journey. Not finding "ne at first to hia mind, he waited till toward dusk, when a handsome animal was offered, but at so low a price, considering his appoarance, that ho imnicdiiitcly suspcctcd thmeiraa some secret blemish or deïect that would not boar the daylight. Howover, aftor much examination, none such being found, and being hiinsclf a good judge of a horse, he consented to booome its purchaser. The next morning, Btill better pleased with tho appearance of I1Í3 bargain, hc again óotnmênOed his jouraey. The horse had excellent paces, and the lawyer, riding the first few miles on a well-frequented road, and observing that his horte was admirad by nearly all hemet, did not fail to congratúlate himself on his good luik in ha ving ubtained so admirable a steed at s l low B price. Bj' this time hc had reached Finchley Oominos, - then a noted resort for highwaymen, - and coming to one spot in a hollow which iay betweeu two slight as oonts, hemet a cltricul-looking gentil man driving to town in a cne-horse chaise. Tho ro;id was solitury, not n cxeatum in tiicht-, when the horse ostonishea his rider by making a BuddcB iimiieuvor, by whicli he brought his hind-quarters close to the chaise, and so rtopped it, pro ving at (moe what the proiesaion of his tornee maater had been, as wcll as his mva coinplicity in the highwayinau's art. Tho clergyman, believing for a certainty that a highwayman as well as the horse was at hand, and, uiifortunatuly, nol baring a pistol to delend himself, or rather, as uppcared, being of apeaceful turn, produced his purse at once, assuring the astonished lawyer that it was quito unuecessary to use violence, as he was not about to offer violenco. The lawyer spurred up his horeo, and, with mauy apologies to the terriiied c)e."gyman, resumed his journey. In a whili', howuvor, tlicy mot a stagecoach in anothor solitary part of the road, and again the horse prepared, by tho same extraordinary maneuver, to bring it to a stíuid. But here a 'different reception met him ; a Vilundurbuss was levclcd from the coach window, with denunciation of dcath and dostruction against the luckless rider, who was now in his tu:n more temfficd than the unresisting clergynian had been. -- o it went through the day. Wherevcr an opportunity of robbing cccurrcd, the horse offi:red it to his moster, and did the best in his power to aid him. In iact, after his Life had been repeutedly endangored by the su.-picions which tho couduct of his Bteed ntiturally gave rise to, and his liberty threatened by the peaco officers, who were about to take him up as a notorious highwuj'man, to whoni, of a truth, tho horse badformerly belonged, the lawyer was obliged to part with him for a trifle, and to purchase one in his stead whish, though lar lessbeau iful, hi.d not been trained to those criminal habits in which the other had become a perfect adept.