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it, as often as the most crack male rider in the field, 

 priding herself no little, in generally tiring her attend- 

 ant whether there, or upon the road ; she has beside, 

 terriers the most stanch at the badger, of any in the 

 vicinity, with the performances of which, she is in 

 the habit of regaling her friends, male, I must pre- 

 sume. 



SECTION XXIX.— The Road. 



For journey riding, men have various tastes ; in con- 

 sequence, seek to provide themselves with hacks of 

 peculiar and appropriate qualifications. Those of the 

 very patient class, prefer a fast walker ; and some I 

 have known, Job's descendants, who in warm wea- 

 ther, will walk their nags the day throughout ; the 

 next of this qualification, will jog trot it : Others are 

 devoted to fast travelling, and these have ever the 

 greatest difficulty in horsing themselves. I belong to 

 this impatient class, feeling excessively fatigued at a 

 long day and slow progress ; my travelling rate, here- 

 tofore, was generally eleven miles per hour, stages 

 from sixteen or seventeen, to twenty-two miles, at 

 which rate, I could get through eighty to eighty four 

 miles in a day, more than which I never attempted ; 

 nor should such excess, oppressive and ruinous to the 

 horse, ever be used, except in cases of necessity, or 

 once perhaps, for the sake of experiment. No doubt 

 a few of our best English hacks, and I believe I had 

 one of them, have been able to travel one hundred 

 and twenty miles over the road, in twelve hours ; or 

 upwards of four score miles per day, during three or 

 four days, but no conscientious and reflecting man 



