^94 THE ADVENTURES OP A GENTLEMAN 



from liability. Vide Broadwater v. Blot, Holt. N. 

 P. C. 547. 



There is a case quoted in the anonymous work to 

 which I have frequently alluded, to which the read- 

 er's attention should be called. It is the case of 

 Coggs V. Bernard, Lord Raym. 915. I have not the 

 report by me, but I extract Chief Justice Holt's 

 words from the Laws relating to Horses, p. 45. " If 

 a man should lend another a horse to go westward, 

 or for a month, if the bailee go northward or keep 

 the horse above a month ; if any accident happen to 

 the horse in the northern journey, or after the expi- 

 ration of a month, the bailee will be chargeable : 

 because he has made use of the horse contrary to the 

 trust he was lent to him under ; and it may be, 

 if the horse had been used no otherwise than as 

 he was lent, that accident would not have befallen 

 him." 



Nothing is more common than to take these little 

 liberties with a borrowed horse. I have known a 

 horse borrowed from a farmer for a morning's ride, 

 put at a fence, when he had probably never faced 

 timber in his life, and sent home with both knees 

 broken ! and great was the difficulty I had in adjust- 



