imals--the off-side horse a gray, almost snow-white--the near, a dark
chestnut, nearly black--with square docks setting admirably off their
beautiful round quarters, high crests, small blood-like heads, and long
thin manes--spoke volumes for Tim's stable science; for though their
ribs were slightly visible, their muscles were well filled, and hard as
granite. Their coats glanced in the sunshine--the white's like statuary
marble; the chestnut's like high polished copper--in short the whole
turn-out was perfect.

The neat black harness, relieved merely by a crest, with every strap
that could be needed, in its place, and not one buckle or one thong
superfluous; the bright steel curbs, with the chains jingling as the
horses tossed and pawed impatient for a start; the tapering holly whip;
the bear-skins covering the seats; the top-coats spread above them--
every thing, in a word, without bordering on the slang, was perfectly
correct and gnostic.

Four dogs--a brace of setters of the light active breed, one of which
will out-work a brace of the large, lumpy, heavy-headed dogs,--one red,
the other white and liver, both with black noses, their legs and sterns
beautifully feathered, and their hair, glossy and smooth as silk,
showing their excellent condition--and a brace of short-legged, bony,
liver-colored spaniels--with their heads thrust one above the other,
over or through the railings, and their tails waving with impatient joy
--occupied the after portion of the wagon.

Tim, rigged in plain gray frock, with leathers and white tops, stood, in
true tiger fashion, at the horses' heads, with the forefinger of his
right hand resting upon the curb of the gray horse, as with his left he
rubbed the nose of the chestnut; while Harry, cigar in mouth, was
standing at the wheel, reviewing with a steady and experienced eye the
gear, which seemed to give him perfect satisfaction. The moment I
appeared on the steps,

"In with you, Frank--in with you," he exclaimed, disengaging the
hand-reins from the terrets into which they had been thrust, "I have been
waiting here these five minutes. Jump up, Tim!"

And, gathering the reins up firmly, he mounted by the wheel, tucked the
top-coat about his legs, shook out the long lash of his tandem whip, and
lapped it up in good style.

"I always drive with one of these"--he said, half apologetically, as I
thought--"they are so handy on the road for the cur dogs, when you have
setters with you--t