24 OBSERVATIONS. 



joint effects of indifferent riders, indolent grooms 

 or ostlers, hot stables, irregular feeds, and the 

 plentiful hay and water system that fre- 

 quently constitutes Hvery subsistence, we 

 soon perceive fluctuating humours, depraved 

 appetite, inflamed eyes, sv/elled legs, crack- 

 ed heels, tender feet, and a, multiplicity of 

 those stable comforts that instantly strike the 

 eye of an experimental observer, v/hen taking 

 an occasional survey of the public stables in ^ 

 London ; where they conceive they execute 

 every degree of equestrian duty in the highest 

 perfection, though a lad, of even the second 

 class, from a common hunting-stable in the 

 country would instantly demonstrate the 

 contrary. 



My very v/orthy and learned predecessor 

 Bracken, in his digressions for the public 

 GOOD, has introduced stories and similes of 

 all descriptions and denominations, from the 

 funeral of his '' favourite mare with ale and 

 *^ rosemary,'' to the " comparison between a 

 ^' rider of sixteen stone and a ^ Scotchman s 

 ^' pack\' strictly enjoining every man (who 

 had not a ra^onal idea of his own corpulence 

 or circumference) to be careful m adapting 



