"Yes!" was the answer, "if I can have my price."

"Name your price, then, putting the rider into the bargain!"

This was too pointed to be passed over by a simple answer, and Coleridge was ready.

"My price for the

horse, sir

, if I sell him, is

one hundred

guineas, — as to the

rider

, never having been in parliament, and never intending to go,