stressed; and you may go on in that way for thirty miles,
never galloping, of course, for none but fools or hivermen ever gallop
horses on roads; and at the end of that distance you may stop at some
other nice inn to 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