"I am quite sure."
"Pray, sir, did you ask him, if the horse was his that you bought?"
"I asked him if he had any horse that would suit me."
"What was his reply?"
"To the best of my knowledge, it was that he had one in his stables that would suit me."
"Now, sir, did he say, that he had a horse in his stables that would suit you?"
"I understood him so."
"Pray, Mr. Deuce, be sure; because I should be sorry to convict you of a wilful and direct falsehood. I pray you to be sure. Did he say he had a horse that would suit you? or did he say, there was a horse in his stables that would suit you?"
"It never struck me before,—he might certainly say, there was a horse; but I took him to mean, that he had one that he could sell me."
"Come, sir, I am very glad to find that you have a disposition to correct the evidence you have given for the prosecution. You have sufficient legal acumen to distinguish between a man saying, there is such a horse, and I have such a horse; the latter sentence would go to identify the ownership of the horse, or a declaration to that effect."