“’This:—suppose a horse falls, and is hurt, or an upset—would you stand the racket?’
“’I would, of course.’
“’Then listen to me; I have had more of these affairs than you have, no doubt. Well, then, I have had experience, which you have not. Now, I’ll get a trotting-horse, and a covered cart or chaise—one that will go along well at ten miles an hour, and no mistake about it.’
“’But will it hold enough?’
“’Yes, four or five or six, and, upon a push, I have known eight to cram in it; but then you know we were not particular how we were placed; but still it will hold as many as a hackney coach, only not so conveniently; but then we have nobody in the affair to drive us, and there can’t be too few.’
“’Well, that is perhaps best; but have you a man on whom you can depend?—because if you ha
