the tailor' Tom Snoat the tinker" -- &c &c
-- Once The 'Captain of a company'
came with two or three of his subalterns
came to Mr Sedgwick's with the
intent, to capture from the stable 'Jenny Gray'
a beautiful young animal -- reckoned
too spirited for any hand but the
master's of the family, & 'gentle as
a dog' in his hand, Mumbet would say --
-- Jo' a cowardly serving man, obeyed the
order to bring the horse Jenny Gray from the stable
& saddle & bridle her -- Mumbet stood
at the open house-door keenly observing,
-- The Captain, with much difficulty, for
the animal was snorting & restive,
mounted -- but whether from an instinct
of repulsion or from some magnetic
sign from Mumbet (I suspected
the latter)
she reared & plunged & threw her
unskilled incumbrance on the turf