120 nixTS TO noESEMEN; or, 



meul — may no contaminating lox, with its vile appur- 

 tenances, and viler projectors, drive him from his own ! 



See, on the same arena, that steadier man of forty 

 or more ! How truly his team step together, each 

 bar steady as a level ! The hands that are behind 

 them make no mistaken display of handling the reins ; 

 a turn of the wrist, and gentle pressure of the whip- 

 hand, can make the practised team cut a figure of eight 

 true as the figure itself. If the cortege stops, it stops 

 smoothly and gradually ; no pole against the leaders' 

 quarters, no rattling of swing-bars against their hocks, 

 but each horse well up to his traces, and cool as their 

 master ; their perfection makes them worth a diadem 

 — m.ay one of laurel and olive bind his brows ! 



Eut here comes the team of one who, with the 

 nninitiated, creates wonder how, with his known 

 comparatively small means, he contrives to do the 

 thing, keep his four-in-hand and, at the same time, 

 his character : they marvel much, but he does both ! 

 Eeader, I will let you behind the scenes. The four- 

 in-hand are not (to buy them singly, and out of har- 

 ness) worth thirty pounds a- piece ; but they are fine 



