BEGGARS ON HORSEBACK. 



filled with stones) would fit in my hold-all with the 

 teapot, tin kettle, india-rubber bath, shooting-boots, 

 drugs, and other angular things which had been 

 already bestowed in it ; in punching fresh holes 

 in the straps, in going to the saddler to have more 

 "dees" put on the off-sides of the saddles, and 

 finally in a harrowing parting with our portman- 

 teaus, which, labelled " Dolgelly, per goods train," 

 had been delivered to the hand of the boots. It 

 was the burning of the ships ; and while the smart, 

 tightly-belted hold-alls were hoisted like plethoric 

 grooms to their saddles, we looked back to the 

 portm.anteaus, and said, with a hope no larger 

 than Brutus had, " If we do meet again, we'll smile 

 indeed." 



For about two miles we crawled at a walk in the 

 heat, — the drab Tommy niggling, shuffling, and 

 plodding; the bay Tom "dishing," crossing his 

 legs, and stumbling, but both absolutely laid out 

 for goodness. Lulled to a false security, we 

 ambled thus up and down the slopes, and prosed 

 a little to each other about the scenery : plump, 



