now TO MAKE MONEY BY HORSES. 177 



worthy and opulent merchant was speaking to me of 

 the carriage and horses he had come to the determi- 

 nation of setting up, told me he had bought a pair of 

 horses, and the carriage was just finished. I saw 

 neither, but judged of the style of the latter from his 

 giving me the following information : ''I have 



ordered my harness of ," mentioning a city 



harness-maker. " Is it to be brass or plated ?" said I, 

 pretty surely guessing it would be the latter. *' Brass !" 

 said he, ''that is only fit for a stage-coach; no, I 

 have ordered plated, and have directed it to be made 

 as rich as possible." Hick harness ! I had heard of 

 neat and of handsome harness, but rich was a new 

 term to me, and that it was to be rich in plated orna- 

 ments was to me a settler. What hope is there of 

 such a man ? The only thing to do was to wish the 

 worthy merchant, his lady, and his four really 

 amiable daughters health to enjoy their newly-ac- 

 quired equipage, rich harness and all. I fear he is 

 not one of those to whom I can hold out much pros- 

 pect of making money by his horses. To convince 

 himself of which, he has only to look at the man I 



