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Whether Adam, or Cain, or Abel ever 

 rode, it does not appear ; but they had Horfes, 

 and Dogs, and Foxes, and Hares ; and why 

 are we not to fuppofe that they went a 

 hunting, and had as good fport as we have 

 (nay, better : for they had no Huntfmen) ? 

 They muft, however, have rode without fad- 

 dies, it is pretty clear. 



I do not find that thefe fuperfluities were 

 held in much efleem in the time of the Ro- 

 mans. Raphael, in his pifture of Attila, at 

 Rome, has treated us with a Hun or two, 

 riding after the fiiliion of their country, I 

 fuppofe. The devil a bit of a bridle have 

 they — nothing but a flrap round their Horfes 

 neck, which they hold at each end with 

 their hands. Nor are their Nags of the 

 quieteft either, but feem to be fliowing their 

 agility and caprioles to the befl advantage. 

 By no means fuch Palfreys as either I, or 

 you Mr. Gambado, would like to beltride 

 without a bridle, and a good plain faddle 

 too. 



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