ANNALS OF HORSEMANSHIP. 89 



Mamfelle BellefefTe, the Teacher at the 

 Boarding-fchool, being call'd up before her 

 time, and in a fmall building which looks 

 into the road juft at the turn, her watch 

 luckily by her fide, faw the flrange gentle- 

 man pafs, precifely at eight and three feconds. 

 She defcribes him differently from Mary Jen- 

 kins, though they both agree in the wings. 

 ** II me fembloit avoir le vifage de Cupidon 

 ** avec les ailes de Pfyche*" — fa3'^s Mam- 

 felle de B. At eight and fix feconds the 

 Blind Beggar, by his computation, heard 

 him pafs the Cheefe-cake Houfe. At eight 

 and eight feconds A. M. the man coming to 

 fweep the chimneys met him at the finger- 

 poft. In a fecond after, he knock'd down and 

 went ov^er Alice Turner, the Saloup Wo- 

 man ; and exadly at eight and ten feconds, 

 Mary Jenkins faw the laft of him. Now- 

 calculating the feconds and the diftances 

 between each fpot where he was feen, it 

 is evident he went at a prodigious rate. 



N Childers 



* Which I learn means— He feera'd to liare the face of Cupid 

 and Pfyche's wings. 



