With these and a few other floating notions of air

With these and a few other floating notions of air

With these and a few other floating notions of air, exercise, and change of scene in my head having decided that, however tempting to the caricaturist, the amusement of hundreds was not to be despised I took my place at eight o’clock, at London-bridge station, in a railway carriage the best of hacks for a long distance on a bright October morning, with no other change from ordinary road-riding costume than one of Callow’s long-lashed, instead of a straight-cutting, whips, so saving all the impediments of baggage. By ten o’clock I was wondering what the sad sea waves were saying to the strange costumes in which it pleases the fair denizens of Brighton to deck themselves. My horse, a little, wiry, well-bred chestnut, had been secured beforehand at a dealer’s, well known in the Surrey country.

Fonte: Tamming Horses