WINTER SKETCHES. 



CHAPTER I. 



Equestrianopathy . — TJie Horse ^ the Saddle, and 

 the Outfit. — Westchester County. — Ele- 

 phants and Milk. — Decker s Institution. — 

 A Town of Churches. — Meeting of Old 

 Schoolmates. 



I HAVE a favorite medical system, which 

 I shall style Equestrianopathy. It is vastly 

 superior to Allopathy, Homoeopathy, Elec- 

 tropathy or pathy of any other kind. 



*' When pain and anguish wring the brow," 

 whether it comes from mental or physical de- 

 pression, too much exercise of brain or stom- 

 ach, dissipation of society or confinement in 

 furnace-heated hotels or offices of the city, I 

 resort to my remedy. 



From my boyhood I have adopted it when- 

 ever opportunity offered, as a prophylactic as 

 well as a cure. Many hundred miles have I 



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