CHAPTER VII. 



AFTER THE HORSE — THOUGHTS BY THE WAY — ON PROVERBS 

 — OX LANGUAGES — A RIDDLE — THOUGHTS ON ART. 



OLLOA ! Winter's getting on. Must get this 

 horse, or where's my exercise ? Can't do my 

 httle exercise without a horse ; but fancy 

 H trying to do an exercise on a horse ! — say a 

 German exercise ! I should soon find I had committed 

 ctit Svrtr^um, and I from my ^Bfcrb should have to tnnuntergelKn. 



Dislike the German character — I mean characters of the 

 German Alphabet. It looks like a sort of nutcracker 

 language. 



Happy Thought. — German was probably invented by 

 some one who was trying to learn Vv'elsh. 



Talking of languages, everyone says Italian is so easy, 

 because everyone has learnt Latin. But Italian would be 

 very much easier if the Italians had only stuck to their 

 Latin, and not tried to better it. Don't tell me that 

 '■'- giorno " is in any way suggested by " dies." There's an i 

 in both words, but, for the matter of that, there's an eye in 

 a needle. 



Happy Thought. — It suddenly occurs to me that I've 



