20 BIPEDS AND QUADRUPEDS. 



phe-aton for the day, for one pound one ; the horse, 

 decently fed, would cost five shillings, ostlers two, 

 turnpikes three, making one pound eleven, thus 

 saving eleven shillings. To do this, they subject a 

 poor brute, perhaps part of the time under a glaring 

 sun, to drag them sixty-eight miles ; the ladies, 

 sitting with perfect composure, hearing and seeing 

 him whaled along the last ten miles in all the 

 suffering of exhausted nature : fortunate animal he 

 may consider himself, if increased pace is not 

 demanded of him on nearing the house of the consi- 

 derate party, in order to shew in what superior 

 manner they came along. 



But this act, merciless as it shows, was possibly 

 not achieved without stratagem — in fact, direct and 

 flagitious falsehood having been used. An owner 

 would not let a single horse to draw four ersons and 

 a phaeton nearly seventy miles for a guinea, and, if 

 a respectable and at all merciful man, not for increased 

 price. So on the hiring the representation is made 

 that the destination is Hounslow to lunch. Salt Hill 

 to spend the day, Cranford bridge to tea in the way 



