218 PRECEPT AKD PRACTICE. 



The next specimen is a gentleman who works both 

 legs as energetically as the other does his right arm* 

 So, as far as his legs are concerned, he works away 

 as strenuously as if he was running seven miles an 

 hour. This, I suppose, he calls horse exercise ; it is 

 far better — it combines the exercise of the pedestrian 

 with the quicker progression of the horse he rides. 

 The gentleman leans a good deal forward, his bridle- 

 hand resting on his horse's withers, or rather neck. 

 By what word, signal, or talismanic touch he stops or 

 guides his horse, I know not, but certainly not with 

 the bridle. 



How are such men to know how far, or how much» 

 they vary from others ? They have probably hitherto 

 got on safely, and have got to the place they wanted 

 to go to ; they have no large looking-glass to show 

 them the grotesque figures they cut in the eyes of 

 other persons ; and no one will tell them of it. And 

 supposing they did, it would be thought they greatly 

 exaggerated the thing. They would give lasting 

 offence without producing even incipient good. 



A vast deal of the badness of hands arises from 



