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To Mr..

SIR,

I want your advice, and hope you will give it me, concerning a horse I have lately bought, and which does not carry me at all in the same way he did the man I bought him of. Being recommended to a Dealer in Moorfields (who I rather think is no honester than he ought to be), I went to him, and desired to look into his stable, and so he took me in; with a long whip in his hand, which he said was to wake the horses that might perhaps be asleep, as they were but just arrived from a long journey, coming fresh