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the other, Vvva?it Rex, dead as a door nail^ 

 by G-d, Sir.'* Thefe flips are, however, to 

 be charitably confidered fublime cffuiions of 

 fancy, to which men of fuperior genius are 

 juftly intitkd, as laudably emerging from 

 vulgar explanation, and fublimely foarmg be- 

 yond the limits of common comprehenfion. 



Experience is, upon the foundation of 

 the ancient adage, univerfally faid '* to ynake 

 fools wife''* To a little of that falutary ex- 

 perience I acknowledge m.yfelf indebted, and 

 am not aihamed to confefs, that in the very 

 early part of life, I became a temporary 

 Have to cuftom, and creduJoufly beftowed my 

 premium of three guineas, exclufive of the 

 keep, to have si colt rendered every thing 

 that was bad^ by the moft popular diftri- 

 butor of equeftrian difcipline in the neigh- 

 bourhood of my refidence ; when after an 

 abfencc of fix weeks, the time fixed on ne- 

 ceffary to complete his education and render 

 him a paragon of perfedion, he was re- 

 turned fo caparfoned, bitted, cavifoiied, 7nar'' 

 tingaled, and cruppered, that he feemed ad- 

 mirably decorated for the immediate adven- 

 tures of a knight errant, the field day charger 



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