196 THE POCKET AND THE STUD. 



they require suitable accommodation for their 

 families, and it is quite correct and reasonable that 

 master or mistress should in some way (probably 

 in all ways) be put to a large expense, because 

 the loving pair think proper to have a large and 

 charming offspring. Then a regular coachman 

 will usually no more dress a horse, wash a carriage, 

 or clean a set of harness, than he would sweep the 

 Mews his stable is in ; he would be held as a low 

 fellow by his brethren of the whip, if he did so. 

 The other ladies of the clique would not visit his ; 

 she must be a low creature also, to permit her 

 husband to do these things ; for the Duchess of 

 Sutherland, though most undoubtedly at the height 

 of aristocracy, must not suppose she has all the 

 aristocracy to herself; her coachman's lady, who 

 uses silver teaspoons, would no more associate 

 with one who used Britannia metal, than her lady- 

 duchess would with her seamstress, and most un- 

 questionably would give herself ten times the airs 

 towards an inferior. 



Secondly come the horses. It is true, we see 

 very fine ones driven in single-horse four-wheeled 

 carriages ; still to look well, they are not required 

 to be of the high and superior stamp of those where 

 a pair are used ; and beyond this, supposing a man 

 gives a hundred for a very superior horse for his 

 Brougham, if that horse was well matched, the 

 pair would be worth something like three times 



