198 THE POCKET AND THE STUD. 



to as regards feeding they will show it; and he 

 will lose both them and his character. If your 

 horses look badly from your using them unfairly, 

 it is your fault ; and for his own sake he will 

 shortly tell you that you do so, and will not be 

 very nice as to whether you take them away or 

 not, for, in fact, keeping them will injure more 

 than benefit his yard. Send for a known respect- 

 able man ; agree by the quarter, or half-year, or 

 year, for your horses, at a price that will enable 

 him to feed them properly as regards your demand 

 on them as to work ; put them under his charge ; 

 pay the stableman who takes care of them libe- 

 rally; and your horses will have every justice: 

 for it must be borne in mind that, though the ma- 

 jority of helpers in dealers' and livery yards are 

 scamps unfit for private families, they are first-rate 

 stablemen, and your horses will be under the eye 

 of a man who knows how to treat them an ad- 

 vantage that it is by no means certain they would 

 derive from being overlooked by the generality of 

 masters, setting aside ladies. 



There are two ways of doing most things, 

 namely the right and the wrong; this, on the 

 broad scale, is a sensible enough remark, or rather 

 saying ; but though one way may be either right 

 or the reverse, there are gradations as to how far 

 we diverge from the line, be it the right or wrong, 

 and in accordance with this we shall generally 



