RIDING DOUBLE. 75 



AN EQUESTPJAN ADVENTURE. 



" Oct. 10. — During this day's walk, P ; who, upon 



the whole, shews much more j>?wc& than most of his 

 countrymen, suffered much from fatigue and tender feet. 

 For an hour or two we scarcely advanced more than a 

 couple of miles per hour. Towards evening a fair Sa- 

 voyard, d'un certain age, passed by on horseback, after 

 the manner usual in Switzerland. After much argument, 



we induced P to request a seat behind the lady ; so, 



having hailed her, we descanted at some lenoth on the 

 disabled state of the unfortunate foreigner, and, finally, 

 persuaded her to take him with her the length of St 

 Martin. He was, accordingly, mounted ' with difficulty 

 and labour hard/ and the two dej>arted on their way re- 

 joicing. We had not proceeded far, however, before our 

 eyes were attracted by an unusual spectacle. Either the 



saddle-girths had given way, or P with his cherry 



stick had tickled the fancy of the Alpine courser. Be that 

 as it may, the twain were lying in the dust in a most de- 

 plorable condition, the horse peacefully grazing by the 

 roadside, and the fair Savoyard, leaning over the exhausted 

 Columbian, exclaiming, with clasped hands, ' pauvre 

 Anglais! — pauvre enfant!' Neither of them could 

 give a very intelligible account of the manner in which 

 the accident happened, and, fortunately, neither of them 



