"first catch a hare." MRS. GLASSE. 173 



was the locale the tutor had in view as the residence 

 oi\A^ protege. His idea, taken as a whole, was perhaps 

 visionary, and the picture too highly coloured : but if 

 we made a copy, and softened down the] tints a little, 

 we should have nearly a perfect composition : we only 

 then want a perfect engraver, and posterity would 

 derive much benefit from the efforts of the two 

 artists. 



In giving hints or offering ideas on any subject, it 

 may very naturally be expected that the person doing 

 so should confine himself to the subject in question ; 

 but I never could bear confinement in any way : I 

 must "run loose in my traces," or I cannot icork at 

 all. In writing, this erratic habit actuates me in 

 double force ; but as I have not vanity enough to 

 suppose that in treating on any particular subject I 

 can so interest a reader as to make him consider my 

 quitting it of nmch consequence, I feel apology 

 would be useless, as I am aware I should sin again 

 and again. 



In corroboration of what I have said, I now offer 

 a few hints on breeding horses. This I allow has 

 nothing to do with educating them ; but it strikes me 

 forcibly that before we can educate them, we must get 

 them somehow, and as before we can get them they 

 must be bred, I shall venture a few ideas on that 

 process, though they will not be many, and, for the 

 further advantage of the reader, the means of con- 

 veying those ideas shall be made as short as possible. 

 I ought to have mentioned something about breeding 

 in the title of this paper, but I did not, and I never 

 alter anything I have written. If it was better, it 

 would be worth this : but as it is, its only merit (if 

 any merit it has) is the coming before the public as it 



