363 ROAD HORSES. 



Thcfe admonitions are introduced merely 

 as a mirror worthy the accurate infpeftion 

 and remembrance of thole inconfiftent be- 

 ings, who, difmounting at the different 

 inns upon a journey, give their confe- 

 quential inftrudiions to an oilier, or perhaps 

 a ft able boy, and never condefcend evea 

 to look upon the poor" animal again, til! 

 neceffarily produced for the - continuance ' of 

 his journey, at the end of twelve, twenty- 

 four, or eight and forty hours. This almoil 

 incredible infenfibility and felf-importance 

 brings to m.emory the pcmpofity of a me- 

 dical fludent frcili from the trammels of 

 hofpital attendance, and lectures upon Os- 

 teology ; whofe head was fo replete with 

 anatomical phrafeology, that his mouth wa!5 

 never permitted to open but in a difplay of 

 profeffional ability. For riding into one of 

 the principal inns, in the firft town in the 

 county, and alighting from a poney of fmall 

 dimenfions, he vociferoufly reiterated the ap- 

 pellation of '* Ostler !'' — '* Sir !" — ** Di- 

 veil my horfe of his integuments /'* 



Of the felf-Hime dignity was poor 



Wis- 



