362 APPENDIX. 



It is amazing to think upon the vicissitudes of 

 his life: he had often been burnished up, his teeth 

 defaced by art, peppered under his tail; having 

 been the property of a general, a gentleman, a 

 farmer, a miller, a butcher, a higgler, and a maker 

 of brooms. A hard winter coming on, a want of 

 money, and a want of meat, obliged his poor 

 owner to turn him out to shift for himself. His 

 former fame and great value are now, to him, not 

 worth a handful of oats. But his days and nights 

 of misery are now drawing to an end; so that, 

 after having faithfully dedicated the whole of his 

 powers and his time to the service of unfeeling 

 man, he is at last turned out, unsheltered and 

 unprotected, to starve of hunger and of cold. 



1785- 



