200 OCCASIONAL HAPPY THOUGHTS. 



first-rate for harness on the level, and an A, i, goer iip-h'iW," 

 — I should leave the purchaser to find out how to get dowii- 

 hill again. 



Entry in Diary. — Clever cob sold to a farmer. He only- 

 wanted him for riding, and perhaps sometimes to put him 

 in a heavy cart. I said, " He's never been in a cart, but 

 I dare say he'd do that work well enough. He'd been in 

 harness," I added, in an offhand manner, " before he came 

 to me." From which I left the farmer to infer that if he'd 

 been in harness before he came to me, so he had been in 

 harness while he was with me; and, if so, that he'd go in 

 harness for ever afterwards. 



Happy Thought {Hamlet on horse-dealing). — "That one 

 can smile and smile, and be a villain.'^ 



