It's got to be done, you know, sir; and Diamond's a good horse--isn't he, sir ?" "From your description I should say certainly; but I have not the pleasure of his acquaintance myself." "Don't you think he will go to heaven, sir ?" "That I don't know anything about," said Mr.Raymond.

"I confess I should be glad to think so," he added, smiling thoughtfully.
"I'm sure he'll get to the back of the north wind, anyhow," said Diamond to himself; but he had learned to be very careful of saying such things aloud.
"Isn't it rather too much for him to go in the cab all day and every day ?" resumed Mr.Raymond.
"So father says, when he feels his ribs of a morning.

But then he says the old horse do eat well, and the moment he's had his supper, down he goes, and never gets up till he's called; and, for the legs of him, father says that makes no end of a differ.

Some horses, sir! they won't lie down all night long, but go to sleep on their four pins, like a haystack, father says.

I think it's very stupid of them, and so does old Diamond.