two hoofs and a nose.

With a speed that emulated my muchorred and shudderingly-remembered New-Haven toilettes, (in those ry college-days when we had fifteen minutes to dress in, without it or fire, on a New-England winter-morning, the thermometer as low n as it could go,) I sprang into the nearest habiliments, precipitated self down stairs, and appeared upon the scene. Yes, there he lay, r old Charley, fearfully swollen, (it was inflammation of the lungs, so as our veterinary knowledge enabled us to judge;) around his halfn mouth were some dark stains on the grass, where Tom had been ng to bleed him: it was no use.

He seemed all right last night, Sir,' said the groom: (that I knew self, having seen him at seven.) This morning, when I took him he rolled right over, and choked, and swelled, and died in a minute, you may say. And,' continued Tom, as he saw me regarding the y with a puzzled air, 'I sent Mike off for old Cæsar to come and him.'

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returned to the house, performed my matutinal ablutions, and went ough the ceremony of breakfast, unsentimental as it may seem under circumstances; then moved back to the stable-yard, and arrived re just as old Cæsar drove in.

Such an apparition I never saw before or since. Imagine a man very ort and thick-set, any age you please on the grave side of seventy, strong and active notwithstanding; a grizzly black face; grizzly ite hair and whiskers; long, knotty, prehensile hands, and nails like ws; a hat that resembled a fragment of a very rusty and battered ve-pipe; and clothes- they really knock the spots out of my poor pen, far as doing them justice is concerned. Such variety of wretchedness! ey were more like the mysteriously-united collections of rags one ds of in the sketches of Irish travellers, than any thing ever seen in Anglo-Saxon community. That his cart might not have been painted some remote era, I will not make bold to affirm; but if it ever had en overlaid with color, time, weather, and filth had long since rendered t color indistinguishable; a general hue of mud pervaded the estabment. The horse was worthy of the chariot and charioteer: a mere

now, so we take em somewhere and bury em.

It was said that Cæsar had a peculiar style of burying that, in short, he was a Gothamite representative of the Euro boiled up the unhappy beasts; made glue and dogs' m sausages, probably, to some extent-perhaps ate them resolution was taken on the spot.

'Friend Cæsar,' said I, 'I wouldn't have Charley thro if the Corporation asked me to. You shall bury him, but take him any farther than the orchard. We will put him t improve the apple-trees; I understand they put dead ca vine beds sometimes.'

'And sure,' put in Tom with a smile of approbation, " horse in his time, and deserves dacent burial all the same (Christian, as above used, means merely human being genus homo. It is not solely an Hibernicism, but an English also, and as such has attracted notice in the erudite pages inating Mr. Punch :

'THE ass he drinks water, and likewise the cow, But none but a Christian takes beer, you'll allow

Tom was not uncommonly popular, notwithstanding 1 merits. Indeed, he was something of a misanthropist, an of a misogynist, (I wonder what he would say if he hea him such awful names?) but for the noble animal he cher affection and consideration. Once, when Billy, the cart-hors nal inflammation which I, in my pride of veterinary know the bots, and accordingly 'exhibited' some whiskey and red very nearly did his business for him, Tom, at the first sym dashed off on a run to the farrier's, just three miles off, w for orders; and when some of the servants afterwards ba his earnestness, he only condescended to allude to his ha for the doctor in similar haste one night when the cook was way of conclusive explanation, that a sick horse needed a d as any Christian.'

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We prepared to put Charley on the antediluvian cart.

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ants treated Cæsar with a respect which a white man-particularly white of the lower orders, and most particularly an Irishman - rarely xhibits toward a 'gentleman of color.' This unusual deference was so arked that I observed it from the moment of his entry on the premises; nd my first impulse was to attribute it to superstitious fear ad a guess, either, for even a well-educated man, if his imagination ere at all susceptible, might well be excused for standing in some awe f such a hobgoblin concern as Cæsar and his equipage. But this was ot the real reason; I was now to learn it.

'Did you notice the cart, Sir?' asked Tom, dropping his voice to an arnest whisper as we brought up the rear of the sad procession. 'Yes, indeed.'

'You wouldn't give a dollar for it, would you?'

'Not for horse and all.'

'Sir-r!' throwing all the impressiveness he could into his tone, 'that han's worth twenty thousand dollars this day!'

The milk in the cocoa-nut was accounted for. Subsequent inquiry onfirmed the correctness of Tom's information, save only the usual xaggeration of the amount. This half scarecrow, half-gnome to behold, his patched and shredded knacker, was the actual possessor of twelve housand dollars in bank-stock, besides having educated his children and et them up in some respectable business.

We chose the spot for Charley's sepulture between two of the largest nd finest apple-trees. Cæsar demanded three spades, and asked the wo helpers to stay and assist him. The gardener hurried off for the tensils, and the other men made no objections to working under orders f a 'nigger.' Such is the magic power of wealth to confer respectaility. So it is all arranged now. I sit down on the grass to watch the peration and smoke-not a cigar, but a goodly clay pipe, such as a nickerbocker who is proud to be a member of the St. Nicholas ought to moke. Baby-so long as there is but one, he is always the baby umbling out of doors to see what papa is about, and what they are oing to do with poor Charley. It is his first acquaintance with death The sun is growing warm, but we have plenty of shade here, and ar ever breezeless.

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to voyage all over the country to see matches and try just as an Irish gentleman (according to Thackeray) go business, i. e., to look at a pointer.

'Good-morning,' said Losing: 'how much do you we I stated the usual amount of my material ponderosity 'Just mine exactly:' and then he related to me SU never had the national proclivity to word-wasting) that he bay horse Charley to trot against a team, two in a wag turnpike, for two hundred dollars, (here I put in, 'Why, y doo-all,' but Losing treated the shocking attempt at a pu taking no notice of it,) and that he wanted a man of hi sit with him. He had found the right passenger.

Just a fortnight from that time, I underwent the disag of crossing the Brooklyn ferry, and soon after found down to the scene of action behind Charley Losing's fa horse and black mare that every one on the island kn posed our rendezvous would be Langshaw's, which used place of meeting for such affairs in those days, but Langshaw did n't hitch horses any longer. Said Lang liquor and a miraculous cook, but in his other ways w landlords who are now happily getting to be matter of in the more civilized parts of our country. He fed boarders three times a day by the clock, and it would ha keen man to get so much as a piece of bread and chee hour, unless indeed you ordered a dinner or supper three L. was ten times worse in this respect than her husband. Losing, coming along from some sporting excursion, desp hungry enough to eat a cat without stopping to cut the up at Langshaw's, and requested some provender. Mr out, and Mrs. Langshaw, utterly deaf to Charley's hin beef which he had caught a glimpse of in a closet, ins was nothing to eat in the house, and that nothing could less than two hours. Whereupon, Losing, being prevente gallantry and the land from pitching into a female woma

th wagons. The team had not arrived at the appointed hour, which not surprise us; some body always is late on these occasions; as we re out, it was only to be expected that the other party would be. Losing dn't care; his horse, carefully sheeted, was walking up and down bee one of his numerous wagons, under the guidance of Scipio Africanus, o knew as much of things equine as his master, and that is saying t a little. For himself, he sedulously abstained from all beverages, ough there was much liquoring going on in and about the Mechanics, etreat, and we received numerous invitations; nor did he light a single gar; we strolled about, looking at this and that horse, and winding up th Charley himself, who was not a large or showy animal, perhaps it ght be said, not a handsome one, but had splendid points to the eye of Connoisseur. And Losing told me when and where and for how much had bought the horse, and all the particulars of his training and perrmances up to his present age of eight years; thence he digressed to e wagon, and gave me much information how and by whom a wagon ould be built, all which I listened to with as much interest as Miss nybody would manifest at an account of the last new fashions in Paris Grace Church.

Finally, after a considerable lapse of time, arrived, not the team, but its oprietor. One of his nags had cast a shoe that very morning, and as lame, so he came to pay forfeit. Losing having received the moneyou could not tell from his face whether he was satisfied or disappointed this abrupt termination of the performances-walked solemnly into e bar-room, and there made up for lost time in a way that created a sible respect for him among the circumjacent loafers. Then he proposed me that, as I had never travelled behind Charley, we should go home ith him, which we accordingly did. After having smoked his second gar, Losing, seeing that I was pleased with his pet's travelling, adnced another proposition.

'I am going over the pond,' said he, meaning thereby the Atlantic, and don't know when I shall come back. My brother Fred has bought e team, and Harrison is going to take Screwdriver; now you had better uy Charley - I know you want a horse—and that will just set me free." We bargained a little for form's sake, and to keep our hand in; finally