nice inn for dinner. I say, when your horse is led into the
stable, after that same thirty miles trotting and walking, don't let the
saddle be whisked off at once, for if you do your horse will have such a
sore back as will frighten you, but let your saddle remain on your
horse's back, with the girths loosened, till after his next feed of corn,
and be sure that he has no corn, much less water, till after a long hour
and more; after he is fed he may be watered to the tune of half a pail,
and then the ostler can give him a regular rub down; you may then sit
down to dinner, and when you have dined get up and see to your horse as
you did after breakfast, in fact you must do much after the same fashion
you did at t'other inn; see to your horse, and by no means disoblige the
ostler. So when you have seen to your horse a second time, you will sit
down to your bottle of wine--supposing you to be a gentleman--and after
you have finished it, and your argument about the corn laws with any
commercial gentleman who happens to be in the room, you may mount your
horse again--not forgetting to do the proper thing to the waiter and
ostler; you may mount your horse again and ride him, as you did before,
for about five-and-twenty miles, at the end of which you may put up for
the night after a very fair day's journey, for no gentleman--supposing he
weighs sixteen stone, as I suppose you will by the time you become a
gentleman--ought to ride a horse more than sixty-five miles in one day,
provided he has any regard for his horse's back, or his own either. See
to your horse at night, and have him well rubbed down. The next day you
may ride your horse forty miles just as you please, but never foolishly,
and those forty miles will bring you to your journey's end, unless your
journey be a plaguy long one, and if so, never ride your horse more than
five-and-thirty miles a day, always however, seeing him well fed, and
taking more care of him than yourself; which is but right and reasonable,
seeing as how the horse is the best animal of the two.

"When you are a gentleman," said he, after a pause, "the first thing you
must think about is to provide yourself with a good horse for your own
particular riding; you will, perhaps, keep a coach and pair, but they
will be less your own than your lady's, should you have one, and your
young gentry, should you have any; or, if you have neither, for madam,
your housekeeper, and the upper female servants; so