SG8 ROAD HORSES, 



possible, can it be hardly credible, that any 

 rational composition, after giving these truths 

 (that have fallen from old and experienced 

 observers) a moment's reflection will ever lay 

 himself open to the severity of sarcasms, or 

 rather just contemptuous reproofs, that in- 

 stantly constitute him a fool or a madman 

 in the eyes of all the world ? Under consi- 

 derations of so much weight, I can have 

 but little doubt that every random traveller^ 

 (not totally callous to the dictates of pru- 

 dence and discretion) to whose rumination 

 these hints may become subservient,, will, 

 in future, divest himself of his aei?ostatic 

 FUROR ; and conclude his stage or journey 

 by such gradual declination of speed for the 

 last two or three miles, as may bring his 

 horse toterahhj cool into the proper receptacle, 

 without persevering in a public proof of 

 folly, always productive of danger and cer- 

 tain contempt. 



As it is so evidently proper to ride a horse 

 very moderately at the conclusion of a- 

 journey, so it must prove equally necessary 

 at the beginning. When a horse is brought 



