202 RIDING RECOLLECTIONS 



You will lose your dinner perhaps. What matter ? 

 You may even have to sleep out in "the worst inn's 

 worst room," unfed, unwashed, and without a change 

 of clothes. It is no such penance after all, and surely 

 your first duty is to the gallant generous animal that 

 would never fail you at your need, but would gallop 

 till his heart broke, for your mere amusement and 

 caprice. 



Of all our relations with the dumb creation, there 

 is none in which man 'has so entirely the best of it as 

 the one-sided partnership that exists between the horse 

 and his rider. 



