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spectators of tlie daiigei* I rode in for som^ 

 weeks, that he \\^as absolutely not to be sub- 

 dued, and they positively advised me to aban- 

 don the undertaking ; but the instinctive spi-^ 

 rit of attachment to that industrious motto, 

 '' Peksevere and Conqi/^r/' encouraged 

 me to continue my original plan, which I 

 have repeatedly explained, and most forcibly 

 recommend ; for under that system of steady 

 and unremitting' firmness, divested of vio- 

 lence, and blended with intervening acts of 

 tender encouragement, he is become one of 

 the steadiest and most temperate hunters in 

 the field ; though it is plainly perceptible by 

 the agitation so constantly displayed in the 

 eye, the ear, and action, upon the approacli 

 of every* stranger, that he had repeatedly ex- 

 perienced the severe effects of bodily abuse 

 and ill-usage before he came into the temper 

 rate region oi xny \)0%SQ^s\ou, 



These cases are not introduced from any 

 motive of vanity, to blazon my own practice 

 with the stamp of perfection in fashionable 

 *' feats of horsemanship," but to afford expe- 

 liinental, demonstrative, and incontrovertible 

 proof, founded upon repeated personal trials 



