92 OCCASIONAL HAPPY THOUGHTS. 



we don't commit ourselves to anything by going in. Pullinger 

 is a Clergyman, and lie says he knows all about it. At all 

 •events, if we don't like it, we can come out again." 



The Mounted Gentleman calls out, " What shall we do 

 v/ith the horses ?"' as if he expected ?ne to hold them. 



There's such a condescensional air about the whole party, 

 that I am really inclined to answer the mounted visitor care- 

 lessly, and say, " What'll you do with your horses ? O, let 

 'em run about. You v.-on't lose 'cm, and, if you do, there's 

 more where they cauic from." 



Happy Thought {for Proverb). — Better horses in the 

 stable than ever came out of it. (To be arranged for my 

 New Proverbial Philosophy Book,) 



I tell Doddridge, who is surveying the scene with a 

 funereal aspect, to summon the Gardener. She sighs, as 

 though this were the last straw which would break her back, 

 and goes off resigi-bedly for the Gardener, who will hold the 

 horses. 



The weak part of our cottage is our drawing-room. It is 

 small, and we are always apologising for it. 



I generally explain that " I 'm going to build a new wing," 

 only the plans are not finished, or the estimates are not 

 ready, or the something or the other isn't done, which simply 

 means that, all things considered, my Aunt and I do not see 

 the necessity of an outlay on the drawing-room. 



As Chilvern, the Architect, whom I did consult on the 

 matter, said, " You see in enlarging an ordinary room, it's 

 different to making a concert-hall or a theatre hold more 



