BAD FEEPEES. 16 L 



For a huntsman, who with some harriers hunts 

 his horse three days a week, or for one (if such a 

 one now-a-days could be found) who has hunted 

 the same horse twice a week with a scratch pack, 

 that hunt every thing in turn, such a horse is a 

 treasure ; he was so when bagsmen, I do not mean 

 foxes, rode their forty miles a day for a week 

 together: but men who wish to go when they 

 do go, and do not want to go constantly with 

 the same pair of ears before them, though in the 

 words of the song, they may think tliat, " a big 

 bellied bottle's a mighty good thing," will not 

 estimate a blo'-bellied horse in the same decree. I 

 can truly assert I never was carried brilliantly, 

 corklly, and elastically, by any such horse : last- 

 ingly I have ; but there is, or at least I can con- 

 ceive, no pleasure in the duration of any thing 

 that is not pleasant in the beginning. 



I have had some exceedingly good journey 

 horses of this sort ; but, as I never was in the 

 habit of riding, or driving long journeys, they 

 were thrown away on me. If I have to take such, 

 give me merry posters, or a coach ; but from a : 

 long continuance of road travelling behind a horse, 

 or on him, good fate, deliver me : a pleasure-trip 

 through a picturesque country is another affair': 

 my light-hearted sort will do this, and feed too, 

 and do it pleasantly. 



The landlord in the Beau's Stratagem, says, in. 



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