"Diamond! Diamond!" it cried; and Diamond pulled the reins, and the horse stood still as a stone.
"Husband," said his mother, coming up, "you're never going to trust him with the reins--a baby like that ?" "He must learn some day, and he can't begin too soon.

I see already he's a born coachman," said his father proudly.

"And I don't see well how he could escape it, for my father and my grandfather, that's his great-grandfather, was all coachmen, I'm told; so it must come natural to him, any one would think.

Besides, you see, old Diamond's as proud of him as we are our own selves, wife.

Don't you see how he's turning round his ears, with the mouths of them open, for the first word he speaks to tumble in?
He's too well bred to turn his head, you know." "Well, but, husband, I can't do without him to-day.