214 THE POCKET AND THE STUD. 



do nearly the same ; but if a master is a careless, 

 unfair, or, to say the least, injudicious rider in 

 the field, the best stud-groom that ever had a horse 

 under his care cannot keep the stud going, the sick 

 and the lame will make a fearful array against the 

 sound and hearty ones; with such a customer as 

 this, no doubt, whoever lets his hunters on a job, 

 Calculates and charges accordingly ; such a man 

 must pay for his folly in some way, either by 

 giving a considerably greater sum for the use of 

 horses, than the same number would cost another 

 man, or, if in his own stables, losing by the 

 lamed and maimed he sells out in order to get 

 others fit for the field. 



If I mistake not, Count Segur went further in 

 the jobbing system than most private individuals, 

 and I believe Tilbury supplied him with horses. 

 I never had the honour of any further acquaint- 

 ance with the Count than an occasional nod, but 

 I have seen him "go," and go he certainly did, 

 and, as a sailor would say, go ahead he did, 

 and more than once over his horse's head I have 

 seen him go ; but the Count was not a man to be 

 dismayed at such a contretemps ; he got up, 

 shook his feathers, and, like a true good one, 

 away he sailed again. We ought to cherish such 

 in these omnibus and railroad times, to keep up 

 emulation in the field at home and to show the 

 illiberal and uninformed the fallacy of their ideas, 



