THE HORSE AND HIS RIDER. 



" Inscribed on many a learned page, 



In mystic characters and sage, 

 f Long time my first has stood; 



And though its golden age be past, 

 In wooden walls it yet may last, 

 Till clothed in flesh and blood. 



My second is a welcome prize 



For those who love their curious eyes 

 With foreign sights to pamper ; 



But should it chance their gaze to meet, 



Al improviso, in the street, 

 Oh ! how 't would make them scamper ! 



My third 's a kind of wandering throne, 



To woman limited alone, 

 The Scilique law reversing ; 



But when the imaginary queen 



Prepares to act this novel scene, 

 Her royal part rehearsing; 



O'erturning her presumptuous plan, 



Up jumps the old usurper Man." 



The various uses for which the horse is habitually 

 employed require corresponding varieties in the make 

 and shape of the animal. The dray horses of the 

 London brewers are very handsome ; but their beauty 

 is of a different kind from that of the Newmarket 

 racer. That which is a good quality in one kind of 

 horse may be a defect in another. An animal, for 

 instance, which is intended for the saddle ought to 

 stand with his fore legs erect ; if they slope back^ 



