No, no, preserve me from live eels and hocussing! And now let me ask you how you would spirit a horse out of a field ?" "How would I spirit a horse out of a field ?" "Yes! supposing you were down in the world, and had determined on taking up the horse-stealing line of business." "Why, I should.

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But I tell you what, friend, I see you are trying to pump me, and I tell you plainly that I will hear something from you with respect to your art, before I tell you anything more.

Now, how would you whisper a horse out of a field, provided you were down in the world, and so forth ?" "Ah, ah, I see you are up to game, Mr.Romany: however, I am a gentleman in mind, if not by birth, and I scorn to do the unhandsome thing to anybody who has dealt fairly towards me.