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them to be always in some trouble, and himself 

 also, a good servant is required. And then 

 unless he has (at least, occasionally) over him an 

 eye that can see, and a head and tongue to direct, 

 the chances are he will sooner or later become a 

 bad one. If the master happens to fall short in 

 the first two qualifications, the less he uses the 

 latter organ the better; otherwise, should the 

 servant be a middling one, their joint acts would 

 only make bad worse : should he be a good one, 

 he will leave his situation. So, under each and 

 every circumstance, it will be seen that the only 

 way for a person to have his business tolerably 

 done, if he cannot, that is, if he is not qualified 

 to direct himself, is to avail himself of some one 

 who is. 



Numbers of persons are deterred from keeping 

 horses from conceiving the expense of them to be 

 much greater than it really is, or, at all events, 

 need be, if they are properly managed. Such 

 persons often expend in omnibus, street-cab, and 

 job cab-hire about twice as much as would keep 

 them a well-appointed Brougham or Clarence for 

 their family use. 



A friend of mine, who lives in pretty good style, 

 with the exception of not keeping a carriage, 

 when speaking on the subject, and enumerating 

 the probable expense of only a single horse, among 

 his other items set down the forage of the horse 

 at a hundred a-year ; this being, in fact, quite as 



