h the drawback that he is rather fond of drink. We
could make shift with him very well, provided we could fall in with a man
of writing and figures, who could give an account of the hay and corn
which comes in and goes out, and wouldn't object to give a look
occasionally at the yard. Now it appears to me that you are just such a
kind of man, and, if you will allow me to speak to the governor, I don't
doubt that he will gladly take you, as he feels kindly disposed towards
you from what he has heard me say concerning you."

"And what should I do with my horse?" said I.

"The horse need give you no uneasiness," said the postillion; "I know he
will be welcome here both for bed and manger, and, perhaps, in a little
time you may find a purchaser, as a vast number of sporting people
frequent this house." I offered two or three more objections, which the
postillion overcame with great force of argument, and the pot being
nearly empty, he drained it to the bottom drop, and then starting up,
left me alone.

In about twenty minutes he returned, accompanied by a highly intelligent-
looking individual, dressed in blue and black, with a particularly white
cravat, and without a hat on his head: this individual, whom I should
have mistaken for a gentleman but for the intelligence depicted in his
face, he introduced to me as the master of the inn. The master of the
inn shook me warmly by the hand, told me that he was happy to see me in
his house, and thanked me in the handsomest terms for the kindness I had
shown to his servant in the affair of the thunderstorm. Then saying that
he was informed I was out of employ, he assured me that he should be most
happy to engage me to keep his hay and corn account, and as general
superintendent of the yard, and that with respect to the horse, which he
was told I had, he begged to inform me that I was perfectly at liberty to
keep it at the inn upon the very best, until I could find a
purchaser,--that with regard to wages--but he had no sooner mentioned
wages than I cut him short, saying, that provided I stayed I should be
most happy to serve him for bed and board, and requested that he would
allow me until the next morning to consider of his offer; he willingly
consented to my request, and, begging that I would call for anything I
pleased, left me alone with the postillion.

I passed that night until about ten o'clock with the postillion, when he
left me, having to drive a family about ten m