horse-faker

Updated: May 15, 2025

Then I described how his first impulse had been to lead him back to King's Pyland, and how the devil had shown him how he could hide the horse until the race was over, and how he had led it back and concealed it at Mapleton. When I told him every detail he gave it up and thought only of saving his own skin." "But his stables had been searched?" "Oh, an old horse-faker like him has many a dodge."

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes