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Updated: October 3, 2025
Two men, the one a horse-dealer, the other a tax-collector or receiver, who were sitting at a table beneath the large linden in front of the house and imbibing their drink, had been watching the work of the robust old man. "It must be true!" one of them, the horse-dealer, called out. "You would have made an excellent blacksmith, Judge!"
I thought you were there, or thereabouts!" the horse-dealer replied, regaining his composure at once, and eyeing him with strong disfavour. "But Felix and I," Adrian exclaimed eagerly, "will fend for ourselves." Toussaint shook his head. "It is impossible," he said surlily. "Quite impossible!" "Then hear me!" Felix interposed with excitement. "You do not deceive me.
More than that, he fled with ridiculous haste, and in craven terror; while Lafe, having given the trembling colt a parting caress, quitted the farm abruptly and for all time. As for Blue Blazes, two days later he was sold to a travelling horse-dealer, and departed without any sorrow of farewells.
Next morning bright and early Dic went to town to see Sampson, the horse-dealer. He found him sitting on the inn porch. "Well, you're going to take the horses for me, after all?" asked that worthy descendant of one of the tribes. "Billy Little said you would give me five hundred dollars. That is a very large sum. You first offered me only one hundred."
Immediately after the appearance of the Imperial attorney from Vienna the horse-dealer was called to account before the bar of the Supreme Court for the violation of the public peace proclaimed throughout the Empire, and although in his answer he objected that, by virtue of the agreement concluded with the Elector of Saxony at Lützen, he could not be prosecuted for the armed invasion of that country and the acts of violence committed at that time, he was nevertheless told for his information that His Majesty the Emperor, whose attorney was making the complaint in this case, could not take that into account.
A member of it may be a tramp and a beggar, the proprietor of some valuable travelling show, a horse-dealer, or a tinker. He may be eloquent, as a Cheap Jack, noisy as a Punch, or musical with a fiddle at fairs. He may "peddle" pottery, make and sell skewers and clothes-pegs, or vend baskets in a caravan; he may keep cock-shys and Aunt Sallys at races.
But I must pause here to say a few words about Sinfi Lovell. Some of my readers must have already recognised her as a famous character in bohemian circles. Sinfi's father was a 'Griengro, that is to say, a horse-dealer.
Lankin and I took our places, the horse-dealer making room for us; and I could not help looking, with a little air of triumph, over to the Kicklebury faction, as much as to say, "You fine folks, with your large footman and supercilious airs, see what WE can do."
To think that my two children, if alive, might be sold, I know not where, or to whom, and taken far from me! I had not thought it possible. My heart swelled with grief. So great was my suffering that I almost supplicated the "horse-dealer." I said to him: "You are deceiving me. What can my children do? Who would wish to buy such poor little things, so young? useless mouths as you said yourself?"
The Lord High Chancellor, who nevertheless recognized the danger that was threatening the horse-dealer, did his utmost to bring his lawsuit to an end before it should be complicated and confused by new developments; this, however, was exactly what the diplomatic knights desired and aimed at.
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