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But the pace (44) that effected, which money could not, 

 For to part, and in death ! was their no distant lot : 

 In a fatal blind ditch Carlo Khan's (45) prowess failed. 

 Where no lancet (46) nor laudanum (46) either availed. 

 More care (47) of a horse than he took could take no man, 

 He'd more straw than would serve any lying-in woman. 

 Still he died ! Yet just how, as nobody knows. 

 It may truly be said, he died " under the Eose." 

 At the death of poor Khan, Melton (48) feels such 



remorse, 

 That they've christen'd that ditch, the Vale of White 



Horse ! 

 Thus ended a chase, w^hich for distance and speed 

 Its fellow we never have heard of or read ; 

 Every species of ground every horse does not suit — 

 What's a good country hunter (49) may here prove a 



brute ; 



44. Which is a complete answer to that important question, so vauntingly 

 asked by a favourite poet, when he exclaims, in language indeed some- 

 what bold, — "Pray, what can do that which money cannot?" 



45. The name of poor Mr. Price's horse. 



46 — 46. Two excellent restoratives where the patient is not too far gone ; 

 where he is (as in the present case'., inimitable soporifics. 



47. Indeed, it is only to be lamented, that :Mr. P. had not taken rather 

 more care of him a little earlier in the day, which probably would have 

 obviated the necessity of this accouchement. 



48. Which redounds highly to the credit and the sympathy of the Melton 

 gentlemen, and completely refutes a very ill-natured but groundless sup- 

 position, that their sensibility will ever suffer them to make a joke of any 

 such heavy loss a gentleman may happen to sustain, especially if the gentle- 

 man happens likewise to be heavy himself, which cf course doubles the 

 weight of the misfortune, 



49. As every country gentleman may not comprehend the force of this 

 expression, he ought to know that the Meltonians hold every horse who can- 

 not "Go along a slapping pace"—" Stay at that pace"— "Skim ridge and 

 furrow "— " Catch his horses "— " Top a flight of rails "— " Come well mto the 

 next field" — "Charge an oxfence" — "Go in and out clever" — "Face a 

 brook" — "Swish at a rasper"— and in short, "Do all that kind of thing" 

 which are all so plain and intelligible, that it is impossible to mistake their 

 meaning, — that horse is held in the same contempt, in Leicestershire, as a 

 coxcomb holds a country bumpkin. In vulgar countries (i.e., all others), 

 where these accomplishments are not indispensable, he may be a hunter. 



