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An Honest Horse
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A DEALER once, selling a nag to a gentleman, frequently observed, with
emphatic earnestness, that he was an honest horse. After the
purchase the gentleman asked him what he meant by an honest horse. Why,
sir, replied the seller, whenever I rode him he always threatened to
throw me, and he certainly never deceived me.
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