Pray let him see some service under your auspices, which he is most unlikely to do under mine.

He has plenty of bone to be a weight carrier, and they tell me also that he has speed enough for anything." Mike's voice in the lawn beneath interrupted my reading farther, and on looking out, I perceived him and Sir George Dashwood's servant standing beside a large and striking-looking horse, which they were both examining with all the critical accuracy of adepts.
"Arrah, isn't he a darling, a real beauty, every inch of him ?" "That 'ere splint don't signify nothing; he aren't the worse of it," said the English groom.
"Of coorse it doesn't," replied Mike.

"What a fore-hand, and the legs, clean as a whip!" "There's the best of him, though," interrupted the other, patting the strong hind-quarters with his hand.

"There's the stuff to push him along through heavy ground and carry him over timber." "Or a stone wall," said Mike, thinking of Galway.
My own impatience to survey my present had now brought me into the conclave, and before many minutes were over I had him saddled, and was cantering around the lawn with a spirit and energy I had not felt for months long.

Some small fences lay before me, and over these he carried me with all the ease and freedom of a trained hunter.