8o ANNALS OF HORSEMANSHIP. 



horfes, and a flill greater variety in their 

 motions ; I fome years fince fet about mak- 

 ing a colleftion of fuch as were fingular, and 

 eccentric in their fliapes and adlions, and 

 flatter myfelf no private mufeum can have boaft- 

 ed of a more admirable variety, than I have 

 pofleffed. I mean fome day or other to clafs 

 them, and by fo doing, think I fhall be able to 

 convince the Naturalifls, that from their form 

 and performances, many horfes are allied to 

 the cov\^, and fome to the hog kind. In the 

 mean time, I flialljuft mention to you a few 

 varieties of this fame animal, which I have had 

 in my pofleffion -, and which may, pr'*haps, 

 afford you an hour or two's amufement and re- 

 fledion. 



I luckily pick'd up a Daify-cutter, by his 

 throwing me down on the fmoo theft part of the 

 grafs, in Hyde Park. I had heard of this de- 

 fcription of horfe frequently, but could not be- 

 lieve the accounts of it, till I found it verified, 

 by experiencing his accomplishments myfelf. 

 It feems a problem difficult to folve, how a 

 horfe can put forward his fore legs, without 



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