130 THE POCKET AND THE STUD. 



We now come to the kind of horse I will sup- 

 pose the reader about to keep, namely, a mo- 

 derate-sized one, for moderate work, in harness, 

 or for the saddle. For such a horse, four quarterns 

 of corn, and a truss of hay in four days, are quite 

 sufficient ; if a horse merely to ride for an airing, 

 three quarterns are enough, with perhaps a trifling 

 addition in that case to his hay. Straw is an 

 article somewhat expensive in London; in the 

 country we reckon little upon it, as farmers will, 

 in some places, supply it to have the manure in 

 return, in others for the manure and a small com- 

 pensation : but we will look at the thing alto- 

 gether as it stands in London, and take the horse 

 as eating four feeds per day. We will take oats 

 on an average at twenty-four shillings per quarter, 

 hay at four pounds ten shillings per ton, and 

 straw at thirty shillings. In stating these prices, 

 I reckon on their being laid in at a cheap season 

 of the year, bought for ready money, and at first 

 hand. Persons who have no room for storage of 

 provender must, perhaps, pay something more 

 in some places than the prices here set down. 

 I have said nothing about beans, bran, or an 

 occasional malt mash ; neither have I men- 

 tioned carrots, these being occasional additions 

 that it would be impossible to reckon on so as 

 to mention a price or weekly sum as the cost of 

 keep. 



