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ble to imbibe instruction ; let it be perfectly 

 uDderstood, that any man riding very fast, 

 without a substantial reason, is never by 'the 

 impartial spectator taken for a king or a 

 conjurer. 



But lest my unsupported opinion should 

 have no weisfht with such highflying 

 gentry, I beg to advance a sensible remark 

 of a neighbouring friend (very recently made) 

 who in a serious conversation, assured me, 

 '' he never saw a man gallop into or out of a 

 town, but he was clearly convinced, the 

 horse was not his own, or the rider was either 

 a fool ox a madman y To this very fair and, 

 candid inference, I am induced to add 

 anotlier corroboration of public opinion upon 

 v/hat they conceive the most striking proof 

 of their courage and respectability. An old 

 farmer, w ithin three miles of my own resi- 

 dence, having dismissed a brother of the 

 faculty who formerly attended his family,, 

 gave me this very concise reason for so doing r 

 '' I did not choose he should attend my fa-- 

 mily any longer, for ' he always rides so 

 fast^ I am sure he never thinks." Is it 



