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give ; and where are those rudiments to be 

 taught or learnt but in a school that is now 

 no more? As well may we attempt to 

 revive the study of grammar or rhetoric in 

 Athens or Rhodes without an Apollodorus, 

 as endeavour to resuscitate the art of driv- 

 ing in this Island without a Jack Moody.* 

 Consequently, all knowledge of it will pass 

 away, or it will be recognised only in the 

 records of poets or historians, like the chariot 

 of Achilles or the dress of Nero. 



It would be almost a folly here to enter 

 into a dissertation upon an art that is 

 nearly obsolete, and bids fair to become 

 as much lost to future generations as is that 

 of training lions to cars, or any other such 

 practices of the ancients. But if it should 

 be asked what is meant by rudiments ; the 

 reply is a proper understanding of the 

 nature of the mouth and temper of the 

 animal as well as a correct knowledge of 



* The name of two celebrated practitioners on the Wind- 

 sor road, Father and Son. 



