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plaint. His curb may be a hole too tight, or 

 his girths; or he may be fuddenly feized with 

 the cholic or flrangury, or with fome natural 

 want. In cafe of the flrangury, with which I 

 have often known aged hacknies to be troubled 

 on a journey, the rider ought to alight, and 

 walk the horfe gently, or flop with him, until 

 he can void his urine. There is a cruel folly, 

 of which fome of your knowing blades are 

 guilty ; that of placing the faddle quite back, 

 upon the horfe's loins, with the girths drained 

 burfling-tight, immediately upon the paunch. 

 I have feen horfes, which chanced to have 

 more wit than their jockies, rear up, and re- 

 fufe to proceed in that painful Rate. 



It would be of confiderable utility, upon a 

 journey, or in the field, if gentlemens' grooms 

 were taught enough of the fmith's art, to fix a 

 fhoe, or drive a nail upon occafion. 



On the fubject. of Female Equitation, or 

 Ladies Riding on Horfeback, I muft beg leave,. 

 firfh of all, to make a quotation from Mr. 

 Hughes, whofe authority will be acknowledged 

 unqueflionable. 



" Method of mounting. — A perfon 

 mould fland before the head of the horfe, 

 holding with each hand the upper part of the 

 cheek of the bridle. Then the lady muft lay 

 her right hand on the near fide of the pommel, 

 and her left hand on the left moulder of a 



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