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few men and a few newspapers whom I would gladly pick out as especially useful 

 and suggestive. But those who know nothing of the Press would not be much the 

 wiser if I did, and those who care for it will no doubt think they recognise their 

 favourites unaided, so I forbear without reluctance. Similarly, there are certain 

 stock publications, periodical or otherwise, which have attained a position of 



The German Horse of the Sixteenth Century. 



By Stradanut. 



venerable respectability, like some ancient and well-established quarry in which the 

 surrounding inhabitants have burrowed for their building-blocks as long as houses 

 became a domestic institution. Some of my stones may no doubt be recognised as 

 coming from those well-known tertiary strata in old sporting literature which every 

 practised writer knows. They are the bedrock of every subsequent enterprise, and 

 the foundation of each structure, as the years roll on. But it is still possible to vary 

 the forms which rest upon them and the plan in which themselves are laid. If I 

 have done that I can ask no more, and with no more ado I will proceed to business ; 

 for it is time to " cut the cackle, and get to the "osses." 



