In the Stable, Field, and on the Road. 25.°> 



England to join his regiment. The fly is well into the 

 web, and before parting on the platform a cheque is 

 given by Swell, and a receipt and warranty given by 

 Coper No. 1, and Coper No. 2 receives orders to take 

 the horses home to Swell's stables. Coper No. 1 takes 

 a ticket to Westbourne Park instead of Eton, then a 

 cab to the bank, the cheque is cashed, the carriage 

 sent to the coachbuilder, the hire paid, the stables 

 are left, and the lodgings also. The horses are taken 

 to Swell's stables and a sovereign given to his coach- 

 man, and Coper No. 2 gets one from Swell. The horses 

 are given as much water and hay as they can eat and 

 drink for a day or two, then Swell takes his new 

 purchase out into the park for a drive, and sends them 

 along at a smart rate up the side of the Serpentine to 

 the Magazine, when lie puts his head out of the carriage 

 window and says " John, what is the matter with the 

 horses, they make an awful noise V John says '• I 

 don't know, sir, but I think they must be broken 

 winded." The horses are then taken home, and Swell 

 goes to lodgings of Coper No. 1 and finds that he left 

 them the same day he bought the horses, the 

 stables are next tried to find the birds flown, and Swell 

 then learns for the first time that he does not know all. 

 In a day or two after a carter-looking man with a 

 smock frock on, has heard that Swell has a pair 

 of broken-winded horses for sale, and as he has a bit 

 of land, he thinks he can work them on it, and offers 

 £10 for the pair, which Swell, being disgusted with his 

 purchase, takes, and the horses are then taken, not to 

 work on the land, but next time to be advertised as 



