asked thee what I beUeve to be his just value, and 

 I shall take no less." 



I was satisfied, paid my money, was well 

 pleased with my purchase for three days ; and 

 then discovered, what very little reflection might 

 have told me at first, that the Quaker being two 

 stone lighter than myself, and presumably a quiet 

 rider, a horse that would carry him safely, would 

 in less than a week break his own knees and en- 

 danger my neck ! But I was not deceived ; he was 

 a good horse, though not fit for me. I sold him 

 again, and lost nothing by him. Some time after 

 he was driven a stage of fourteen miles, and kept 

 the lead of a chariot and four, with a new married 

 couple, starting from the church to spend the 

 honeymoon ! I dare say that my friends will not 

 have yet forgotten the celerity with which their 

 first relay was ordered out at Canterbury ; thanks 

 to the speed of my Quaker. 



I resolved that my second purchase should at 

 all events be strong enough to bear me. I there- 

 fore pitched upon a cob ; he was, to use the ac- 

 cepted phrase, " built like a castle ;" there was 

 "no nonsense about him," most assuredly; but he 

 unluckily moved like a castle ! I have the greatest 

 aversion to a horse that " won't go;" it is an eternal 

 trial of one's temper ; many a time has the provoca- 



