352 ROAD HORSES. 



degree of imposition and every species of 

 adulteration, upon the plausible plea of state- 

 necessity and self-preservation. 



Of these houses there are in fact but two 

 distinct kinds that fall within the necessary 

 circumspection and remembrance of the tra- 

 veller ; for they are generally in the opposite 

 extreme : the accommodations of one class 

 are hospitable, generous, humane and conscien- 

 tious ; the other, execrable to every excite- 

 ment of indignation. While the former 

 are exerting every nerve to acquire subsistence 

 and obtain approbation, with honesty and 

 unsullied reputation ; the latter are deriving 

 indiscriminate support by every degree of 

 DECEPTION witout doors, and every spe- 

 cies of PECUNIARY oppression within. Ser- 

 vants, it is a maxim, soon acquire the virtues 

 or vices of their employers, if they indulge 

 a wish to retain their situations ; and upon 

 the truth of that ancient adage, '' Birds of a 

 feather flock together," where you find the 

 wish to please predominant in the master or 

 mistress, you immediately observe sympathe- 

 tic assiduity in their dependents ; and this 

 remark will hold ^ood, with very few excep-^ 



