HOW TO MAKE HONEY BY HOESES. 5 



of his being so ; and his final act of drawing himself 

 up, thrusting his hands in his pockets, and prior to 

 his walking off, his making the indignant reply, "Xo, 

 sir, thank God, I am not !" He could not lay " this 

 flattering wictio7i to his soul ;" and if unused to 

 the melting mode in one way, I should probably find 

 him quite indisposed to the melting mood in another. 

 He naturally enough wished to be thought of '' otlier 

 moidd,''^ and not only " ivaxed wrath," but was dip'ped 

 in indignation *' to the very lips.'* 



Some may say it is ^^ in se^* as bad to become 

 what they would consider as dealing in horses, as in 

 dealing in dips, rushlights, and greaves ; it would be 

 so, perhaps, if a man did become a dealer in horses ; 

 but he does not ; the dealer in horses purchases the 

 animals and ostensibly keeps them for sale, never 

 rides or drives them for his amusement, seeks and 

 urges a sale by all the rhetoric he is master of, as 

 much as does the (in trade style) ''sharp young 

 man '* who as shopman recommends and tries to per- 

 suade you to purchase a dozen of moulds, when you 

 merely asked for a wax taper. This, I beg to en- 



