I am not quite of a mind, however, with Samuel Richardson who owned a hobby-horse and rode on his hearth-rug in the intervals of writing "Pamela."

THE ORANGE ROOM CHAPTER III A BALL, A SNOWSTORM, AND A SNOWBALL CHAPTER IV ENCOUNTER BETWEEN A HIGH HORSE AND A HOBBY CHAPTER V BEGINS WITH ANCIENT HISTORY AND ENDS WITH AN OLD STORY CHAPTER VI FATE IN A LAURELLED POST-CHAISE CHAPTER VII LOVE AND AN OLD MAID CHAPTER VIII CORPORAL ZEALLY INTERVENES CHAPTER IX DOROTHEA CONFESSES CHAPTER X DARTMOOR CHAPTER XI

All you c'n handle is hobby hosses!"

This is my first advice to the hobby-hunter.

It is the hobby system against which I protest.