CHAPTER XVIIl. 



MY DRIVE COMMENCES — TWO DRIVES AND A RIDE- 

 END OF JARVIS'S COB — TROTT'S QUIET ANIMAL. 



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HE Shambling Ostler wants to know if /le is to 

 drive Jarvis's horse. The alternative is wj 

 drivinsT him. 



Happy Thouglit. — Let him drive. Just because Jie is 

 Jarvis's own man, and, therefore, if anything happens to the 

 horse, the legal maxim. Qui facit per alium facil per se, will 

 hold good — i.e., when Jarvis's paid agent, the Ostler, is 

 driving, in effect Jarvis himself is holding the reins. 



Jarvis's Ostler \s faciting per se for Jarvis. 



I enter the well of the T-cart behind. Dick the Ostler 

 mounts to the driving-box. I stand up, holding on to the 

 rail in front, after the manner of a Groom in a break when 

 they're tr>ang steppers. 



This position, my eye on the horse, has a sporting look 

 as we drive into the lane, and leave Murgle at the gate 

 staring. 



My first impression of Jarvis's cob is, that he is curiously 

 clever in the use of his near fore-leg, which he seems to 



