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dition to the ostrich, porcupine, and rhi- 

 noceros, of some eccentric collector of curio- 

 sities. 



Bracken has introduced a few judicious 

 remarks upon the subject of breeding, but 

 in his usual way so perpetually interspersed 

 with inapplicable stories, and strange con- 

 clusions, that you are dragged through forty 

 or fifty pages of extraneous and digressive 

 matter to be informed, that '^ Spanking 

 Roger, belonging to the late Sir Edmund 

 Bacon, was a round barrelled horse \' that 

 *' Mr. William Penry cured his stammering 

 patients of that defect in speech hy purging \^ 

 that '' a mare belonging to Mr. T. Makin,. 

 of Prescot, in Lancashire, run with her fore 

 feet as wide as a barn door ; yet she ran as 

 fast as most of her size, which wats all owing 

 to bringing in heir haunches quick, for 

 * they must needs go is^^hen the devil drives ;' ^'^ 

 that '' an old woman can cure a wound as^ 

 well as a surgeon ;'' that '' physicians may^ 

 from their io:norance, be considered a set of 

 Tiih pickpockets, almost as numerous as the 

 caterpillars of the law \' that " lie who 

 sails with a bad wind had need understand 

 tacking about.;" with a great aumber of 



