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ble to imbibe inftru<Stion ; let it be perfedly 

 underftood, that any man riding very faft, 

 without a fubftantial reafon, is never by the 

 impartial fpa^ator taken for a King or a 

 Conjurer, 



But left my unfupparted opinion fhould 

 have no weight with fuch Highflying 

 gentry, I beg to advance a fenfible remark 

 of a neighbouring friend (very recently made) 

 who, in a ferious converfation, affured me, 

 *' he never faw a man gallop into or out of 

 a town, but he vvas clearly convinced, the 

 horfe was not kis own, or the rider was ei- 

 ther a jool or a raadrnayiJ*^ To this very fair 

 and candid inference, I am induced to add 

 another corroboration of public opinion, upon 

 what they conceive the m.oft ftriking proof 

 of their courage and refpeCtability. An old 

 farroer within three miles of my own refi- 

 dence, having difmiffed a brother of the fa- 

 culty who formerly attended his family, gave 

 m.e this very concife reafon for fo doing : 

 *' I did not choofe he Ihould attend my 

 family any longer, for he always rides io 

 f^Jly I am fure ke never thinks.*' Is it 



poffible. 



