130 OCCASIONAL HAPPY THOUGHTS. 



" Gentleman's horse every inch of him." He's well worth 

 his money (says Trott), if I take him at seventy ; and every 

 week will increase his value. Some people would be glad of 

 him at a hundred ; only that having promised to get some- 

 thing good for me, Trott has brought him here directly he 

 (the horse) came out of the country. 



Happy Thought. — Kind of Trott, and thoughtful. 



This puts Jarvis's Cob out of the question. Let Jarvis 

 have his Cob back. 



" I think you're right, Sir," says Trott, confidentially 

 speaking about Jarvis's Cob. " It's not the sort of thing for 

 you. It 'ud do very well for a butcher, or Mister Jarvis him- 

 self to knock about on ; but you want something that'll not 

 only do your country work, but if you do feel inclined to ride 

 up to town, something that you can show on, and won't be 

 ashamed of in a gentleman's stable." 



Quite my view. So there's an end of Jarvis's Cob. After 

 all he did stump. " I know him," says Trott, summarily, 

 " tender-toed." 



This sounds as if Jarvis's Cob was always having his feet 

 in hot water, or was a trifle gouty. 



Happy Thought. — To ask Trott (as a vet) whether a horse 

 can have gout ? Trott smiles enigmatically. Clearly he is 

 unwilling to impart professional knowledge for nothing. 

 He has had to pay for his education, why should he give 

 bits of it to me gratis '^ I do not, as counsel say, press the 

 question. 



