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their ladies from a villa to the town-house, or 

 to a party or the theatre : they then go home 

 and are dried. There are other horses and other 

 harness, if wanted, to fetch their owners back; 

 but we do not see such owners starving their 

 horses and servants, cheapening bonnets or silks 

 at half-a-dozen different shops. Many hundreds 

 who do, if they were going to ten different ones 

 close together, would not, if they lived two hun- 

 dred yards off, walk there, and, knowing they 

 should be three hours, order their carriao-e to 

 call for them at a certain hour, for the world. 

 What, lose letting the ten shops see they kept 

 a carriage ! Oh, the delight of " Put those things 

 into the carriage ! " or " William," beckoning their 

 servant into the shop, '•' put this in the pocket of 

 the carriage ! " Pleasant and salutary all this, for 

 clipped horses. 



I have in my eye a family of a certain grade, 

 and, from the animus of each member of it, pretty 

 accurately guess what would be done should they 

 perpetrate a carriage of any sort. If they wanted 

 to go to dinner at seven, it would be ordered to the 

 door at five, to be seen there I If wanted to oo 

 shopping, which it certainly would be two hundred 

 and fifty days a^year, it would be ordered at two, 

 to go at half-past three ! Would it not be " to and 

 again," as people describe our canine friend in a 

 fair ? Would not the tablets to write on, nnd the 



