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famous rider to a rather indifferent one who was inclined to 

 grumble at his purchase, ' but I did not sell you the gift of 

 horsemanship.' On the other hand, a really bad man will never 

 make anything out of a good horse except, if he be allowed 

 his wicked will long enough, a bad one \ Perhaps, it would be 

 safest to say that, in the first case, one pities the man most, in 

 the second, the horse. 



What is a bad man ? We are not about to discuss the ques- 

 tion from a Sunday-school teacher's point of view, useful as 



1 A bad man on a good horse.' 



that would in its own way be ; but as in our last chapter we 

 exposed the various points of badness in a horse, so now we 

 propose to treat the rider to the same process. So often one 

 hears the question, ' Is So-and-so a good man across a country?' 

 and the answer, ' Yes ' or ' No ' as the case may be. Now, if So- 

 and-so be not a good man, it is clear he must be a bad man. 

 When so great an authority as Whyte-Melville ' begs emphatically 

 to disclaim any intention of laying down the law on such a sub- 



