160 FORM AND ACTION. 



roadster, and if not so very expeditious in his movements for a 

 short distance, yet by his untiring continuance at the same rate 

 at the end of a long journey was he found to have gone over more 

 ground, and in less space of time, than any person unacquainted 

 with his stealing pace would have imagined. At the present day, 

 however, one never sees an ambling nag; neither are canterers so 

 abundant as they used to be: walk, trot, and gallop, are all people 

 in these days of reduction of every thing down to the scale of bare 

 usefulness seem to care about, 



