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A LAIRD OF LOGAN sold a horse to an Englishman, saying, You buy him as
you see him; but he's an honest beast. The purchaser took him home.
In a few days he stumbled and fell, to the damage of his own knees and
his rider's head. On this the angry purchaser remonstrated with the
laird, whose reply was, Well, sir, I told you he was an honest beast;
many a time has he threatened to come down with me, and I kenned he
would keep his word some day.
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