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course, equally applicable to the use of persons 

 of either sex. 



Giles. — Have the shoe taken off and give 

 him rest. 



Ursa Major. — There is no real cure for 

 ringbone. Do not waste your money. 



Claude, Emma Vane^ N. Parkes, Henry B.^ 

 Ehoda, Nellie K., and thirty-one others^ 

 write to me for — photographs ! I am sorry 

 that "for lack of gold" I cannot supply a 

 kindly public with my pictures, and I am not 

 vain enough to state pubhcly where they may 

 be had. 



NiMROD. — Pleader was purchased from me 

 last week by the Earl of Eghnton. It will, 

 therefore, be unnecessary for me to reply to 

 any further inquiries respecting him. I named 

 his price and made no change, nor was I 

 asked to do so. 



Cropper. — ^You were evidently sitting loosely^ 

 and thus suffered for your carelessness. You 

 will not be caught napping the next time. 



Anxious, Martha, and a host of others 

 have asked me a very famihar question, *^ How 

 I learned to ride ? I have hitherto avoided 



