A better wife than Mary Fulcher--I mean Mary Dale--no one ever had; she has borne me several children, and has at all times shown a willingness to oblige me, and to be my faithful wife.

Amongst other things, I begged her to have done with her family, and I believe she has never spoken to them since.
"I have thriven very well in business, and my name is up as being a person who can be depended on, when folks treats me handsomely.

I always make a point when a gentleman comes to me and says, 'Mr.Dale,' or 'John'-- for I have no objection to be called John by a gentleman--'I wants a good horse, and I am ready to pay a good price'-- I always makes a point, I say, to furnish him with an animal worth the money; but when I sees a fellow, whether he calls himself gentleman or not, wishing to circumvent me, what does I do?
I doesn't quarrel with him; not I; but, letting him imagine he is taking me in, I contrives to sell him a screw for thirty pounds, not worth forty shillings.

All honest respectable people have at present great confidence in me, and frequently commissions me to buy them horses at great fairs like this.
"This short young gentleman was recommended to me by a great landed proprietor, to whom he bore letters of recommendation from some great prince in his own country, who had a long time ago been entertained at the house of the landed proprietor, and the consequence is, that I brings young six foot six to Horncastle, and purchases for him the horse of the Romany Rye.

I don't do these kind things for nothing, it is true; that can't be expected; for every one must live by his trade; but, as I said before, when I am treated handsomely, I treat folks so.