8 HIIiTS TO HORSEMEN ; OE, 



used), as it is to overlook rows of candles coming from 

 the melting one. 



In some countries it would be held quite beneath 

 the position of a nobleman or gentleman, to even 

 attempt to make money by anything. Of the propriety 

 of such opinion, it is not for me to offer my own ; but 

 it is not so in England. Among some tribes of men, 

 theft is not held reprobatory, while detection is con- 

 sidered disgraceful ; we do not in business quite carry 

 things to such pitch ; but if a man does make, or has 

 made, money, it is wonderful with what complacence 

 his doings are looked at. So go on, my peers, and ye, 

 their compeers, trade in beef, mutton, and pigs' -flesh, 

 sell horns and hoofs as much as pleases your fancy or 

 avarice, only let me now and then just get a pull with 

 my horses. 



Now I fancy I can see why people are really so 

 invidious of, nay, irate against, any one who is found, 

 or thought, to turn his horses to profitable account. 

 I shall consider it as such, if he only makes them 

 pay, or nearly pay, their expenses ; for it must be con- 

 sidered that the gentleman's use of his horses, the 



