Still, like many men of whom the common observation is, 'nobody knows how he lives,' Mr.Sponge always seemed well to do in the world.

There was no appearance of want about him.

He always hunted: sometimes with five horses, sometimes with four, seldom with less than three, though at the period of our introduction he had come down to two.

Nevertheless, those two, provided he could but make them 'go,' were well calculated to do the work of four.

And hack horses, of all sorts, it may be observed, generally do double the work of private ones; and if there is one man in the world better calculated to get the work out of them than another, that man most assuredly is Mr.Sponge.And this reminds us, that we may as well state that his bargain with Buckram was a sort of jobbing deal.