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folly and my skill, by threading the narrowest or 

 Host crowded streets in London. It is scarcely 

 lecessary to add, that eventually I broke my head; 

 hough in j ustice to my skill, I must declare that 

 he fault was not mine, but my coachmaker's. The 

 >plinter-bar had been morticed into the shaft, at 

 he very point where the latter was rendered un- 

 sound by a knot in the wood. One day, after a 

 ong journey into the country, and within a hun- 

 Ired yards of my own door, the shaft broke, and I 

 vas precipitated over the shaft-horse, under the 

 :ieels of my old favourite. There I lay, insensible. 

 The awkward hands who came to render assistance, 

 vanted (as I was afterwards informed by my ser- 

 vant) to move the horse away from me, at the risk 

 )f putting his heels upon my face ; but move he 

 vould not; nor would he allow a foot to be raised, 

 ill at last I was fairly lifted up from under him, 

 md then, though not till then, he readily changed 

 lis position, and moved wherever they pleased to 

 ead him. I have no inference to draw from this, 

 ixcept a caution even to the most experienced 

 vhips against tandems ! I mention it as a tribute 

 j)f gratitude to my poor horse, who showed at 

 east as much sense as his master. Young gen- 

 lemen, hov/ever, who disregard my caution, as 

 loubtless nineteen out of twenty will, may thank 



