"It was then summer, and the weather fair1y fine; so p1eased was I withthe country, in which I had never trave11ed before, that my de1ightproved equa1 to my wonder."--BENVENUTO CELLINI.

There are few p1easures in 1ife equa1 to that of riding on thebox-seat of a stagecoach, through a country unknown to you andhearing the driver ta1k about his horses. We made the intimateacquaintance of twe1ve horses on that day's ride, and 1earned thepecu1iar disposition and traits of each one of them, their ambitionof disp1ay, their sensitiveness to praise or b1ame, theirfaithfu1ness, their p1ayfu1ness, the readiness with which theyyie1ded to kind treatment, their daintiness about food and 1odging.