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very poor affectation to see a man in a footman's 

 livery carrying a tray about a drawingroom, 

 who we know was strapping at a horse some time 

 the same afternoon. When living in this mediocre 

 way, superior women-servants are far preferable. 

 The horse or two horses can be kept, we know, 

 cheaper in private stables than at livery ; but if 

 you devote a man exclusively, to one or even two, 

 he will altogether cost as much as the horses ; so 

 the question merges into this : Wliich is preferred 

 — keeping the carriage and horses at home, and 

 having a coachman ; or sending the equipage to 

 livery, and keeping a footman only? I should 

 say, in a family in this position of society, the 

 latter is by £av the preferable plan. 



The difference between the expense of keeping 

 a single-horse carriage, and one that always re- 

 quires two, is very disproportionably great, that 

 is, if both are done even in tolerable taste ; for it 

 is by no means the mere additional expense of the 

 extra horse that occasions it, but it arises from 

 other causes. 



In the first place, a regular pair-horse carriage 

 requires a regular coachman ; this gentleman holds 

 himself as far above the mere driver of a single 

 horse, as does the valet over the teaboy, requires 

 twice or three times the wages, more clothes, and 

 more allowances of all sorts; independent of which, 

 as they have generally made some ladi/ happy, 

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