36£ HOAD HORSES. 



These admonitions are introduced merely 

 as a mirror worthy the accurate inspection 

 and remembrance of those inconsistent be- 

 ings, who, dismounting at the different 

 inns upon a journey, give their conse- 

 quential instructions to an ostler, or perhaps 

 a stable boy, and never condescend even 

 to look upon the poor animal again, till 

 necessarily produced for the continuance of 

 his journey, at the end of twelve, twenty- 

 four, or eight-and-forty hours. This almost 

 incredible insensibility and self-importance 

 brings to memory the pomposity of a medi- 

 cal student fresh from the trammels of hos- 

 pital attendances and lectures upon oste- 

 ology ; whose head w^as so replete with 

 anatomical phraseology, that his mouth was 

 never permitted to open but in a display of 

 professional ability. For, riding into one 

 of the principal inns, in the first town in the 

 county, and alighting from a poney of small 

 dimensions, he vociferously reiterated the ap-- 

 pellation of '' Ostler V'—" Sir!"— '^ Di- 

 vest my horse of his integuments /'' 



Of the self-same dignity was poor 

 WiGNELL, an inferior actor, bull ^' stock 



