You are a foolish lad, by the by, for purchasing the brute outright; you should stick to eighteenpence a side, if you will trust any creature's legs in preference to your own." "Why, as the horse's have the advantage of moving considerably faster, and are, besides, two pair to one, I own I incline"-- "Enough said--enough said--do as you please.

Well then, I'll bring either Grizel or the minister, for I love to have my full pennyworth out of post-horses--and we meet at Tirlingen turnpike on Friday, at twelve o'clock precisely.

"-- And with this ageement the friends separated..