ANNALS OF HORSEMANSHIP. 



LETTER THE SECOND. 



SIR, 



YOUR fame having reached us here, I 

 fet down with pleafure to write to a man 

 who I am certain will have an equal pleafure 

 in fatisfying the doubts that now occupy 

 my mind. I would proceed and ftate every 

 difficulty I find in the treatment and guid- 

 ance of a horfe, to which animal I confefs 

 I am rather an alien, although I have hap- 

 pily attained (yeflerday it was) my thirty- 

 fifth year. I was bred to a bufinefs that 

 debarred me from an amufement for which 

 I feem formed by nature, being. Sir, very 

 iliort in the fork, and what our wits call 

 duck legged, and all my v/eight lying atop : 

 and it was not till I emerged, as I may fay, 

 from the counting houfe, that I could make 



a trial 



