ROAD HORSES. 539 



As FAME is seldom erroneous in this parti^ 

 cular, his predecessor, hearing of his success, 

 under a considerable advance of rent, took 

 the hberty of calling upon him with a 

 blunt but honest apology " for asking so 

 impertinent a question ; but it was, to be 

 informed how he, who had the farm at a 

 much easier rent, could not even pay that 

 rent and subsist his family with all his care 

 and ceconomy ; while his successor was not 

 only evidently doing this, but daily increas- 

 ing his stock from the superflux ?" When 

 the other i^eplied, that the whole art of his 

 success and improvement of the premises 

 consisted in nothing more than an invariable 

 adherence to tico xcords and their conse- 

 quence ; that when his predecessor held the 

 farm, a too implicit confidence in and reli- 

 ance upon his servants led him into unex- 

 pected and INVISIBLE losses. You, sayshe, 

 always ordered your dependents to ^' Go" 

 and do this, that^ or the other ; my plan is 

 the very same as yours in every other re- 

 spect but this ; from the first hour of my 

 coming into the farm it has been my con- 

 stant maxim to say, '' Let's go ;'' the effect 

 of which has evidently occasioned the very 



