110 THE POCKET AND THE STUD. 



CHAP. III. 



DirFERENT KINDS OF FOOD. — HAT. STRAW. OATS.— BEANS. 



— BRAN. MALT. — BARLEY. — CARROTS. — CHAFF. 



We have long since, we will say, on the judgment 

 of a friend, got what horses we want. We have 

 got what we conceive to be a comfortable stable 

 — a place for holding all the requisites for stable 

 use, and a room for saddles, bridles, harness, 

 clothing, and the etceteras. We have now an- 

 other most important thing to provide for our 

 horses' use, namely, something for them to eat. 



We are told, on much better authority than 

 mine, though even I could form a tolerably shrewd 

 guess as to what would be the result of the ex- 

 periment, that " not e'en love can live on flowers." 

 Now, in speaking of love, the idea of flowers al- 

 ways suggests itself to the imagination ; — not that 

 we are told, that even in Paphian bowers they 

 ever stood in the place of any entremets intended 

 for the palate. Our little friend or foe (as the 

 thing turns out), who holds himself privileged to 

 appear before ladies sans unmentionables, sans 

 kilt, and, indeed, sans even an apology for one, is, 

 we are told, mightily addicted to playing with 



